Terrifying 22LR Assault Weapons

I think by now if you had any sense whatsoever you'd realise that the vast majority of tabloid journalism was full of shit, but sometimes the odd story comes through which is impossible to simply pass off as being entertainment for spastics.

In the wake of the Sandy Hook shootings where twenty-six people were killed, most of them children, 'The Sun' newspaper in the UK has written an 'investigative' piece on so called 'assault' weapons which are available to purchase in this country. So bad is their article that I just felt I needed to post this to prove how ridiculous it really was.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4721772/Sandy-Hook-shooting-weapons-on-sale-legally-in-the-UK.html

The article starts saying:
"A Welsh-based firm is advertising a Ruger SR-22 semi-automatic as a “clone” of an AR-15, the gun loner Adam Lanza used to kill 26 people."

Well lets just do a comparison:

Do they look at all similar? No.
The top one is quite clearly a .22 rifle with a tactical aesthetic for a gimmick. The bottom one is clearly the real deal. 

Second paragraph:

"Shocked campaigners are demanding new gun controls after The Sun discovered British 

dealers selling the weapons."


Wow, must have been a very slow news day because you can go on any firearms website and
find these within a few seconds. 
So what is the reason for this article? 





Just more hysterical shit given to us by Murdoch's corporation to make us go running to the 
Government for a solution for a problem which doesn't exist. Every time a shooting happens

 elsewhere in the world the UK looks for even more of an excuse to restrict gun ownership. 

Restricting weapons seldom helps, the criminal will simply find another way of killing and 

someone who is intent on killing indiscriminately will gain access to a firearm somehow.

The BASC (The British Association for Shooting and Conservation) have already logged a complaint with the press complaints commission over The Suns misleading article as have many other shooters but its unlikely to have any real luck.

Meanwhile the UK's ever increasing anti-gun restrictions seems to be going mental. The Scottish Government is now considering licencing for airguns with the banning of backyard plinking apparently justified by the death of a toddler in 2005. 

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/airgun-licensing-law-plans-hailed-1490802

Whatever. 


I'm getting so fed up with this countries decent into a dystopian nightmare that I've given up worrying. When this Government finally decides its time to take complete control the people here aren't even intelligent enough to want to resist let alone have the balls to do it. They are all already used to what Nanny says being best. 

Bow and arrow is my bag anyway.

Health Fascism: Nanny Knows Best

These days it seems that you can't even enjoy a cheeseburger if the Government doesn't agree. The latest news reports coming from the UK Government regarding obesity and health in general are nothing short than facism.

On the third of January the BBC ran this report:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-20897681

Essentially the Government wants to reduce benefits of anyone who is both on the dole and obese. However this rather over-simplified idea doesn't go into details of the cause of obesity and also doesn't explain how fat you have to be before you are believed to be obese.

This is somewhat concerning as it is already known that the drinking 'units' in the UK are actually plucked out of the ether at random. There was an article in the Sunday Times after Christmas which went into this at great length and was written by one of the members who drafted the advice which was later passed onto Government to be enacted as a rule. Fact of the matter is that if the Government decides how fat fat is, then they could presumerably stop benefits for half of the population if they wanted. This is just another way of cutting benefits with some psudo-intellectual backing.

Of course alcohol is different and I would assume it has more to do with taxation and preventing anti-social behavior than it has with any form of health concern in most cases. For instance, I fail to see how I'm labelled a binge drinker for drinking six pints when normally I can go months without touching any tipple whatsoever.

Here is a short article which gives some details about the alcohol units and how it was a load of crap:

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/timcollard/100026019/all-this-talk-of-units-of-alcohol-is-just-puritan-propaganda/

Of course I'm sure many of these nobs in office who actually think up these schemes realise that half the reason why many people on benefits are obese in the first place is because half the time it is much cheaper to buy unhealthy pre-packed meals than it is to buy fresh ingredients and make something healthy from scratch. Perhaps therefore, Mr.Cameron, you ought to offer some form of fruit and veg food stamp which invariably would be better and cheaper in the long run than any of the other bizzare ideas.

Then there was this wonderful news:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-20914685

In a nut shell, the Labour party (maybe they should be renamed the Mary Poppins Party) want to legislate how much fat, sugar and salt is in our food.

In two words: Fuck off.

Despite the failings of common sense and general intelligence in todays society, Im pretty sure that we can still look after ourselves when it comes to choosing what we eat.

Still, even when you can afford to buy all fresh ingredients, it seems that the health nazi's will still come after you.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9750464/Jamie-and-Nigellas-meals-unhealthy.html

Celebrity chefs have being slated for having recipes which are more 'unhealthy' than microwaveable meals. Oh, but it goes further.
Some idiots actually want 'unhealthy' recipes only shown after the 9pm watershed, as though it were as offensive as thai ladyboy porn. As hilarious as it may seem for the rest of us, unfortuantely its these kind of idiots without a ounce of common sense or sense of humour who run the world these days.

The main point is missed time and time again: You can eat whatever you want so long as you have a well balanced diet in general and actually have a use for the calories. Calories are made out to be bad thing thats out to make us fat. Its wrong. Calories are what fuel us. The average consumption of calories should be around 2500 for an adult male but that goes up and down according to how much manual work that they do in a day. Saturated fats and salt are the ones to be concerned about, but even then, so long as you lead a generally healthy life style and eat enough vegetables too, there is no problem!

It vexates me to see so much crap given to us as half-truths being taken as gospel by the idiots!

End of the day: Eat what you want. Exercise. Vary what you eat. End of.

Computer Games Sales Dip

The BBC is reporting that sales in console games has not met its November targets as reported here: 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20638318 

Its hardly surprising when you consider just how bad the game releases have been.

•  Call of Duty Modern Black Warfare IV. Same old shit. 

• Assassins Creed III. Storyline getting pretty tedious by now.

•  Halo 4. Reprocessed Halo Reach with excessively ridiculous storyline.

•  Medal of Honor Warfighter. Somehow managed to compress all the bad parts about BF3 and COD into one horribly frustrating shooter that also is shockingly poor even when compared to the last Medal of Honor. 

Until game developers actually start producing some originality again they aren't going to secure record profits. The gravy-train of simply copying whatever made the most amount of money last time doesn't work in the long-term. Save your money kids!

Falling Guy

Sometimes you get those news stories which seem so random that they just can't possibly be true.

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20644402 

 An Angolan guy who it seems was trying to enter the UK as an illegal immigrant fell to his death from a passenger plane near London's main airport at Heathrow. No sympathy here. 

 Strangely, its not the first time this has happened, and it seems its a bit of a well-known gutsy trick which involves holding onto the undercarriage at take-off and remaining there in the freezing, unpressurized conditions until touch down.

 http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/10/mans-body-found-in-undercarriage-of-nigerian-plane/ 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/09/romanian-stowaway-vienna-heathrow 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19562101

 Rather them than me... The only people I feel sorry for are the poor bastards who woke up like every other day, went out their doors and found a body splattered on the ground. I just hope no kids saw it. Sheer randomness.

Marsian Announcement?

So in the past few weeks there has been a number of announcements (and an apparent hoax) coming from the investigation of Mars from the new rover that arrived there earlier this year. In any case, it would seem that NASA is excited to tell us some important findings which will 'be something for this history books' but understandably is also reservedly waiting to confirm their findings before releasing these findings to the public. Its an exciting time!

http://www.npr.org/2012/11/20/165513016/big-news-from-mars-rover-scientists-mum-for-now

At this point we have absolutely no idea what exactly that finding may be, but being human its difficult not to speculate. My suspicion (and hope) is that they have found a fossilized remnant of extinct life on mars. Why do I suspect this?

Well, two reasons. The first is that NASA has recently given the first evidence for liquid water having existed on the planets surface in Mars' ancient history. These pebbles would have been worn down by the same sort of weathering that we have here on Earth and could well have harbored life long ago. 

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcasting/curiosity20120928.html

The second reason for suspecting this lies with one of the older rovers which has been on Mars since 2004. They suspect that the area that Opportunity has been driving over the past few weeks is actually made of old clay. Clay of course requires vast amounts of water to change the chemical composition of various rocks and minerals, but what is more important is that this water has to be of a neutral Ph level. This of course is also the same 'Goldilocks' requirement for life as we know it to live comfortably.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20649462

If I am correct then this could have far reaching consequences for us as a species. Our religions, philosophical and scientific understanding will all have to change completely, but of course for every question answered, the law of entropy dictates that there will simply be more questions to ask.It would not be completely unfeasible that a discovery of life outside our own planet could spell big social problems for us back home. For instance, will life on Earth be thought of with less respect, will it be seen simply as some inevitable outcome of minerals in rocks that crop up all over the cosmos? Will it lead to a greater acceptance of projects to do with cybernetics, will humanity treat itself differently knowing we are simply just an expression of something ultimately common and mundane? 

Of course this could also inspire humanity to reach out and leave its mark on the universe we find ourselves in. To spread life throughout space and to rekindle our recently lost love for adventure and exploration. There are of course already some thought provoking ideas to do with getting mankind out exploring. 

Speaking of ethical and philosophical conundrums.

http://mars-one.com/en/

The Mars One project is a not-for-profit organization that seeks to put a base on Mars within the next few decades, but there is a tiny issue to do with a one-way-flight that makes the proposition a bit of an issue. Personally, I don't see a problem with having a crew of people go to their deaths having had the experience of a life-time, especially if you could source a crew with medical issues which would prove fatal within a decade anyway. There would in my opinion have to be extremely vigorous psychological testing of individuals to make sure that they could deal with the knowledge that they would die never stepping foot on their home planet again. I personally couldn't do that.

 I also have reservations that once the honeymoon period of landing on another planet is over it could get incredibly boring. There is only so much one can stare at barren rock and take soil samples!

UN Internet Treaty

It seems the UN is getting busier and busier these days, if they aren't trying to scaremonger the public into paying worldwide taxes directly to themselves or supporting the formation of world financial institution they are trying to tinker with democracy, liberty and national sovereignty.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20575844

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20594779

It seems the internet is getting a tough-ride lately what with SOPA and other similar proposals which would make it illegal to post links to anything, anywhere on the internet and the rather unnerving sway towards the dystopian nightmare where all of our opinions and messages are stored to be viewed by any political agency and misconstrued or taken out of context in order to secure tedious convictions.

Then of course despite the Copyright Acts not going through, ISP's are to begin storing peoples access to copyrighted material and making threats against anyone who does.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2165004/Illegal-downloading-Families-illegally-download-music-movies-online-face-court-action-copyright-theft.html

Apparently under the new guidelines the entertainment companies will be able to accuse anyone of copyright infringement without any evidence at all - and individuals will be required to pay to prove that they are innocent. This shit goes against everything anyone has ever stood for in a free and democratic society. Just another example of our age-old common law that is being trod on more and more each year all in the interests of mass-corporation and corrupt Government.

Returning to the original point with the UN for a moment however, it is clear that the UN has some vested interest in using the internet as a platform to springboard their own schemes. The ITU (the telecommunications agency which works on behalf of the UN) said the following...



"The brutal truth is that the internet remains largely [the] rich world's privilege, " said Dr Hamadoun Toure, secretary-general of the UN's International Telecommunications Union, ahead of the meeting.

"ITU wants to change that."

Ok. So why is the UN worrying about supplying the internet to people who still despite billions of spending still do not have access to clean drinking water and food? What good is a PC if you have no electricity outlet? Something doesn't make sense. Thus, read behind the lines, this has apsolutely nothing to do with helping the worlds poorest (yet again , UN) but about controlling the information that they have access to.

Be aware. Read up on all you can now while you still can. Support the free internet, without it we are dangerously close to a irreversible world dictatorship (and this is not some conspiracy theory - the facts are there for you all to see if you choose to read up and take notice of the signs.)

Another Royal Takeover

Srsly???
 

If I remember anything about 2012 outside of the shockingly tiresome coverage of the Olympshits, it will surely be that it was the year that the Royal Family officially succeeded in spamming us on a daily basis about their personal lives.

I do not care that it is the Queens birthday, or the Queens Jubillee, or that Prince William has been allocated a wife hand picked by advisors, or that Prince Harry naively invites wenches back to his hotel room in Vegas, or that the Kate Middleton has been forced to breed with the inbred Windsor line.

Seriously, give me a fucking break!

Then again, I guess we should at least be thankful that they changed the archaic laws of Succession so its equal for first born girls. Still, its not going to make the blindest bit of difference for the avergage person who works to support these cunts on account that the Royals do nothing except rinse our taxes dry.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20600543

So anyway, with the news that Kate Middleton is pregnant and is apparently suffering with 'Acute Morning Sickness', (aww, bless) one thing is certain: this is meerly the begginning. The public must brace themselves for the unleashing of at least half a decades worth of news about some half-retarded sprog who is born with a silver spoon up their arse.

I think Im just going to crawl under a rock now for ten years and save myself the mindless royalist hysteria.