Darwin Award winners

Well comrades, I find myself again considering the criminal classes but this time to laugh at how stupid some of them are in the way that they go about their nefarious activities.

Photo taken on September 26, 2009 shows the destroyed building of Record bank in Dinant after two men tried to steal the cash dispenser of the Record Bank by using dynamite late September 25, 2009. One of the bank robbers was killed in the explosion. (Photo credit MICHEL KRAKOWSKI)

When police arrived at the scene, they found one of them with severe head injuries, and rushed him to hospital.

Investigators initially assumed that his accomplice had managed a getaway, but the second one’s body was excavated from the debris twelve hours later.

Wendy Northcutt, the founder of the annual awards, declared them the 2009 winners of the Darwin Awards, given to those ‘doing the most to improve the human gene pool by removing themselves from it’.

The two bankrobbers had attempted to make a sizeable withdrawal from the ATM, but died when they overestimated the quantity of dynamite needed for the explosion.

The blast demolished the building the bank was housed in.

The first robber was rushed to the hospital with severe head trauma; he died shortly after arrival.

You have just got to believe in divine justice when you read stories like this one and the other examples of stupidity  in the source piece are amusing as well.

Cheers Comrades

Avatar

It took me five  attempts and a minor argument (with my beautiful wife) to buy the tickets online but eventually I succeeded so after driving for nearly an hour, purchasing and smuggling in some food, we  found ourselves sitting down in a cinema waiting for the feature to start.

definitely worth seeing in 3-D

Of course as others have noted there is a definite political bias but it is much more about corporate greed than a critique of any particular government and even  I can actually appreciate where that is coming from. Lots of things in the plot are rather dodgy like just how the individuals ‘plug into” their avatars no matter how distant they are from them but  this is a fantastic ride and the best thing is to just go with it and not think too deeply about just what it means. Essentially what Cameron has done here is to take the Gaia concept and cranked it up  to eleven until the connection between living things is more physical, rather  than just metaphysical and I am sure that the Greenies are going to love it for that. The aging hippies are going to love the painting of the indigenous natives  as noble savages and they will love the pseudo mysticism and   feel vindicated in their support for the similar causes in the real world.

I had never seen a film in 3-D before and I was pleasantly surprised how well it worked and how quickly you just go with it . The Movie was of course James Cameron’s “Avatar” and despite the politics of the plot I found myself liking it very much. I loved the look of the environment , the seamlessness of the CGI elements and the live action, the acting and the sound design. As a roller-coaster ride there is none better and when it comes down to it isn’t that just what we all want in a cinema experience?

Cheers Comrades

The ballance of trade

Right, yesterday I wrote a rather light hearted piece but today I am offering a more serious topic, namely what to do with the scumbags once they have done their (well deserved ) porridge.

Notorious paedophile Raymond Horne, given a police escort through Heathrow Airport

In the past 12 months, dozens of British-born paedophiles, rapists and career criminals – many aged in their late 50s and 60s – were deported to the UK after finishing their sentences in Australian jails, despite having lived most of their lives here.

Among them was notorious paedophile Raymond Horne, who had to be given a police escort through Heathrow Airport amid British outrage over his forced return from Queensland.

UK campaigners fear that a lack of connection to their former homeland, including no support base of family and friends, makes the serial offenders more likely to reoffend.

A British Government report revealed it costs an estimated $100,000 a year to watch and house each deported “foreign” individual.

Well it seems to me that the Poms have got the wrong end of the stick here and that rather than complaining about us sending their citizens back when they have served their sentences in our jails (because they can’t do like wise to non citizen scrotes in their jails) they should change their domestic law so that they can more easily deport the scumbags to their country of nationality. That way they would end up ahead on the deal, as I am rather sure that they have more foreign nationals to export than we have miscreant Poms to send back.

Cheers Comrades

Ethical problems facing your average Latte sipping Warminista

What is a better way to begin the blogging year than to have a go at the ethics of my friends of the latte sipping persuasion?
Well reading the Guardian led me to discover this little snippet:

What should I drink: tea or coffee?

We’re now taking carbon reductions to extremes – and this won’t make a jot of difference to your 10:10 goals – but on average, 33g of CO² is emitted when manufacturing enough coffee to make one cup’s worth. By comparison, loose tea has a carbon intensity of about 20g of CO² a cup.

And what’s the difference between tap water and bottled water?

Tap water is always going to win this battle by a country mile – both in terms of cost and embodied carbon emissions. Tap water can have a carbon footprint as much as 300 times smaller than some imported brands of bottled water.

So it looks like each cup of coffee is a good 30% worse for the climate than a cup of tea. Oh dearie me! That makes conservative tea drinkers better for the planet than the Latte Sippers!

When it comes to the bottled water that so many young “green” trendies are choosing over any other beverage a whopping great 300 times worse carbon footprint than the same stuff from the tap is very hard to justify…

A well ethical consistency has never been the strong suit for the species lattius sippius …

Cheers Comrades

P S I hope that the hangovers are mercifully short and the year ahead fruitful

Happy New year Comrades!!!

I Want to thank all of those who have taken time to read what i have written over the last year and especially those who have posted comments.
I hope that you all have a great time in the coming year.
Cheers Comrades