If You Give Me A Child…
Posted by Ted Bronson | Filed under Social Un-Services, Technologies
I will be able to hold every mistake he ever makes over his head until he dies. (Sorry Jesuits, just revamping for the new order.) When the UK’s DNA database plan for kids as young as five worked out so well, it seemed to embolden Her Majesty’s Government to really up the ante. Now from [...]
Tags: (formerly) great britain
Weep for the Future
Posted by Hazel Stone | Filed under Over The Seas
Ah England, bonny England…you’ve flat lost it. The Labour party wants 16 year olds to vote because they’re generally liberal little barstids and can be counted on to always vote the bread and circuses ticket. From the, er, horse’s mouth: Labour backbencher Julie Morgan spent the day in the Commons arguing for the voting age [...]
Tags: (formerly) great britain, death of common sense
Hmm…Recycle or Kidnapping/Rape?
Posted by Hazel Stone | Filed under Chicken Little, Oddly Not Satire, Over The Seas
As if one needed further proof of the complete disconnectedness of religion from reality: People who fail to tackle climate change are acting like an Austrian man who locked his daughter in a cellar for 24 years, an Anglican bishop has said. The Bishop of Stafford, Gordon Mursell, wrote in a parish letter that not [...]
Tags: (formerly) great britain, death of common sense, global warmening
Feel Safer Yet?
Posted by Hazel Stone | Filed under Do It Yourself, Over The Seas
It’s been a while since we turned our jaundiced eye across the pond… Pastors are set to board Croydon buses to help control unruly schoolchildren and teenagers. Because parents obviously should not be held responsible. The religious volunteers – or “school pastors” – will also attempt to turn young people involved in crime away from [...]
Tags: (formerly) great britain, parenting through humiliation, social responsibility
You’re Right, But Only if You Agree With Me
Posted by Hazel Stone | Filed under Religious Confusion
I’m a bit conflicted… Canon Michael Ainsworth, 57, was set upon by three Asian youths shouting anti-Christian abuse when he confronted them for rowdy behaviour outside St George-in-the-East church in Shadwell, leaving him with two black eyes and cuts and bruises. On the one hand, those “Asians” need to be acknowledged for what they really [...]
Tags: (formerly) great britain, appeasement, yeah I'd be going to hell if I actually believed in it
Here’s a Pre-Smackdown for Your Pre-Stupidity
Posted by Hazel Stone | Filed under Buttinskis
Ick, ick and ICK: Primary school children should be eligible for the DNA database if they exhibit behaviour indicating they may become criminals in later life, according to Britain’s most senior police forensics expert. Gary Pugh, director of forensic sciences at Scotland Yard and the new DNA spokesman for the Association of Chief Police Officers [...]
