Casting Stones

Although it was tough for me to think of Tony stepping down, I was also excited that Gordon would be stepping up and so I like to read the words 'Prime Minister Gordon Brown' in articles.

The handover has also given Tony the chance to now say some things that need to be said.
In an article in yesterday's Observer, Tony is quoted as having launched a powerful attack on British Muslims who claim to be oppressed by Britain, he says their claims are absurd and he is right, absolutely spot on.

"'The idea that as a Muslim in this country that you don't have the freedom to express your religion or your views, I mean you've got far more freedom in this country than you do in most Muslim countries,........ your ideas are absurd. Nobody is oppressing you. Your sense of grievance isn't justified.' "
He goes on to criticise the views of some so-called civil liberty campaigners by asking how they can possibly claim that Muslims in Afghanistan for example are being oppressed by the West when under the Taliban, teachers were executed for teaching girls in schools.

Exactly Tony, exactly.

Avocado and bacon compliment each other so well, I'd say they were made for each other were it not for the fact that avocado and coriander were also made for each other. Important to remember really.

I was rather surprised to see that the Pope, or more accurately his publishing house, the Vatican, has issued 'Guidelines for the Pastoral Care of the Road,' which reminds the faithful that 'thou shalt not kill.'
I did however, begin to see where they were going with this, 'Cars shall not be for you an expression of power and domination or an occasion for sin.' Well quite.
I wonder if the Tony Sopranos of this world will pay heed. Probably not, they don't pay much heed to any of the other general rules of the Catholic road like, 'don't kill people just because your pasta wasn't al dente,' and such like.
I have been wondering what the Latin for car is though.

Absurdity is not confined to Islamists and Catholics with big cars mind you.
At the same time that Perez Hilton's cheap namesake was whingeing and whining about being given a 45 DAY sentence for violating her suspension for drunken driving by going out and driving whilst drunk, both parents of a now 21-year-old young man are starting a gaol term of 27 MONTHS, for displaying good parenting skills five years ago.
They wanted their then sixteen year old son to celebrate his birthday at home and took away the car keys of his guests, saying they could sleep over. Since they knew the youngsters would buy and consume alcohol anyway, but they had removed the possibilities both of them being drunk and disorderly around town and of driving whilst under the influence, they bought alcohol for consumption at the family home.

Tell me how this makes sense.

Austen and I were discussing this article earlier and we could not see any justification whatsoever for taking both parents, depriving them of their children and livelihoods and of making them a burden on the state for over two years for something that seems like good parenting.

In the same article, the absurdity of another case was highlighted. A seventeen-year-old young man (at the time of the 'offence') was serving a ten year sentence for having consensual oral sex with a girl of fifteen. Had he had full penetrative sex with her, he would have received only a twelve monther for a misdemeanour.
Consensual oral sex is apparently classified as 'aggravated child molestation'. Give me a break. This makes a mockery of actual child molestation.
The original charge has now been amended to misdemeanour, but the State of Georgia has appealed, and the young man, now 21, is still in prison.
Tell me how this makes sense.
And tell me who the fuck is so up their own backside that they tell the police about these 'offences'.

Whoever it is that has done this is the real offender, as are the States of Georgia and Virginia.