Category: General

Saudi Prince jailed”for life” for murder of servant

I read that the murderer, who will serve a minimum twenty year term, apparently, may apply for asylum in the UK after his sentence is served, since homosexuality attracts the death penalty in his native Saudi Arabia. (as does murder, incidentally, but perhaps murdering your servant doesn’t count if you are a member of the Saudi Ruling family?)

Apart for the question of why a life term does not mean life imprisonment in the UK, what on earth is this country doing providing asylum to foreigners who commit offences in this country which would result in their receiving the death penalty if returned to their own country? Is this more Labour Luvvie stuff?

As a nephew of the Saudi Ruler is there a concern that he may be set free, if shipped back immediately rather than remaining a burden on UK taxpayers for the next twenty years? Or is the concern that he would be provided with an appointment to present himself in Chop Square on the first available Friday following his return?

This is a C&P

And I apologise, a bit, for being lazy, but I thought it made some interesting points.

Meat is how we convert indigestible vegetable protein into something we can eat. If you eat a cow, you are eating grass or grain in concentrate form.

If veganism is so good for the body, why was there not a single naturally evolved vegan culture? It is because veganism is not sustainable in a hardscrabble subsistence culture. In the bush you eat what you can find when you can find it. There are no freezers, refrigerators, ships from Chile loaded with fresh grapes or planes loaded with berries showing up. It takes a huge infrastructure to support a vegan. The amount of energy consumed just transporting their food and keeping it from spoiling is tremendous. Continue reading “This is a C&P”

The Lunatics have taken over the Asylum

We are to build two aircraft carriers – and no aircraft for them to carry.

We are to spend one billion pounds on capturing carbon from the atmosphere and burying it. This is to add to the megatons of carbon already buried there – which, btw, we could use to produce real, usable energy instead of spending further untold billions on useless windmills which our ancestors gave up a couple of hundred years ago as soon as something better came along.

We are to be taxed to the point of agony – but still continue sending money to line the pockets of corrupt third world thieves politicians, fat-cat Brussels thieves bureacrats and inefficient French thieves farmers while building a two-hundred and fifty million pound palce for an obscure Belgian bureacrat.

We are to cut spending on schools and other educational facilities, but still continue to import thosands of immigants whose children will add to the burden on our already overstretched edycational establishments.

We are to reduce the size of the fighting forces while continuing to featherbed the drones in the Ministry of Hot Air Defence.

We are… I give up. Time, for once, to take a leaf out of the French livre and take to the streets.

Kwotes

Here’s something to while away the time while we wait for Boa’s ‘who is iT’ 😉

All these quotes are from a game that I’ve been playing for 18 years now, I did win once but winning isn’t the object 😉

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Yes, I know the answers but PLEASE don’t quote me. I’ve been playing ‘Civilization‘ since the early days (1993), it’s the only game that I have on my computer, I’ve progressed from CivI, to CivII, to CivNet and now Civ IV, I’m still hopeless at it, I live in hope!