Asylum victor continues hunger strike

I have been hearing about this nutter for a couple of days now and it has made me question a few things. Firstly you need to do a serious job to sow your ears up properly so that you can't hear anything (can't hear you, yes you can you liar) and secondly a couple of days ago he apparently was quoted to say that he was doing this for the plight of all refugees, how on earth did he do that with his mouth sowed up??? Its a good job the thread didn't fall out of the needle as he was sowing his last eye or it would of been a bugger to get the thread through the eye of the needle again.

Well done the Wolves

I am absolutely thrilled to bits for the boys coming up to the premiership, it has been to long for the sleeping giant!! I do feel for Shefflield United, one of my good friends is a blades fan (sorry Sal) and if they were playing any other team, I would of been routing for them. Saying all that though the blades have been there and played at the top level and I am so happy that my family will be able to see their team on the premiership on a Saturday. All we can hope is that they will have the balls to stay up!! Wolves vs Villa what a celebration of midlands footy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It has begun

The attack on my front and back garden has begun today with some serious concrete removing action, thanks goes to my brother for moving tons of general rubbish. With the current calculations we should have a garden some time around 2012, which will be nice. One question remains is it wise to give these sort of power tools to the Homfray brothers???

Go on the Wolves - will have a proper rant tomorrow

Comiserations to Celtic

they played bloody well and unfortunatly played too good a team. It's interesting to think there was a point this week that 1 in every 100 people flying was a celtic fan

David O'Leary - Villa Manager

Well It could be Bryan Robson, he is alright but he will not be able to do anything for the Villa while Ellis is still there

Anybody but Bryan Robson

Please god don't do this to Villa and let one of the worst man managers since Stalin run my footy team. If in the end the board chooses this idiot then it proves either they have no knowledge of football or they are Shity fans. Please don't chose him. PLATTY, PLATTY, PLATTY, PLATTY, PLATTY, PLATTY, PLATTY, PLATTY, PLATTY, PLATTY, PLATTY, PLATTY, PLATTY, PLATTY!!!!!

Taylor Resign's

Although I am quite happy the old duffer has gone, it still leaves one main problem left with Aston Villa Football Club and that is the complete and utter arse that is our chairman. Doug we don't want you, we have never wanted you, bugger off my club, you power hungry lunatic. We now need a manger quickly, which the players respect and can stop them all leaving in their droves. Can you really see Darius staying now or in fact any of our good players. David Platt it is time for you to come and lead the Claret and Blue out of the darkness!!!

Links

Aston Villa Blog
list of chairmans worse than Deadly
Villa Trust

Legalize

With the new level of tolerance shown by the police about marijuana smokers in the UK I think it is about time that the government started to think about legalising this plant. For the past year and half, due to some over the top drug policy at work I have abstained from smoking the occasional joint, I find the ability for an organisation to restrict their employees at times where they are not on site very difficult to swallow.

Lets think about this logically, I am not trying to say lets all go to work stoned, just as I would never say lets go to work drunk, I happen to agree with any organisations stand point to reprimand or dismiss an employee if found under the influence of either drugs or drink. The fact of the matter is that until marijuana is legalised (or at the very least de-criminalised as it is in Amsterdam) there will be no method available for an employer to test whether an employee is under a certain tolerable limit just as alcohol. The next argument that is always brought up is that it is illegal and it shouldn't be smoked in the first place, I don't anymore but a large percentage of the population do, what if I register positive on a drugs test due to passive inhalation. My alternative would be to restrict my social circles to people who don't and I am positive it is against my civil rights for an employer tell me who I can be friends with. What would be the only action I could take in that nightmare situation that I was found to have a positive test due to passive inhalation, as a young professional my only method of recourse would be to take the organisation to court, however long or much it would cost as I would have to prove myself innocent or it would ruin my prospects and future career.

The various friends that do smoke are all down to earth people; they are all successful, work hard, pay their taxes and nearly all have at the very least a university education. Are these people criminals, If so then even though I don't smoke anymore you can mark me down with them as a would be-criminal.

The law is a system of rules setting out conditions of social order and justice in which you are required to adhere. Does social order or justice prevail if we make the plant that occurs naturally around the globe illegal, or do we just the escalate the problem by introducing the criminal element who will supply the plant to general public and will also try to sell other more harmful drugs to them as well. Leagalise it - shove loads of tax on - put health warnings on it - educate people - provide adequte research in to testing and monitoring. It's here already, shutting our eyes and ears is not helping anyone at all.

Links
New Scientists Marijuana Section
BBC Marijuana Section

'Excuse me while I light my spliff and make some noise if you think the herbs a gift'
'Chocolate Super Highway' - Spearhead

A rogue badger attacked five people during a 48-hour rampage in a quiet suburb

Mike Weaver, from the Worcestershire Badger Society, said: "I have never heard of anything like this in 24 years of work with badgers throughout the UK and there is no need for people to start fearing an onslaught of badger attacks."

This apparently is the truth. Thank god for that they are right arsey buggers

The French are on strike again, I don't beleive it. Is their toilet paper the wrong colour or is it something serious. Bunch of work shy lay abouts.

Hopefully there are no Americans going yeah I agree with you buddy/dude/bub (or whatever you yanks say), just because they didn't support your little war (changing french fries to freedom fries, really thats grown up). The British and French have been taking the piss out of each other before America was born. You go back to having a go at the Middle East and let us Brits get on with taking the piss out of the beret wearing, smelly cheese eating, bike riders!!!

Had a nice weekend with Ailsa's sister Janine and her boyfriend Tom. Me and Tom have alot in common from music to a love a science fiction and the occasional beer. He had bought a cople of albums and I was really impressed with the 'Son of Sam' soundtrack which is a collection of Beatle Covers and the Sigur Ross Album, 'Agaelis Byrjun'. Went for some food on Friday night at the Oxford Thai down the Cowley Road, great food and unbelivably cheap. On Sunday went for a walk in Radley Wood to clear my head due to a jagey session/dinner party with Paul and Charlotte the night before. It is coming to the end of the bluebells being in flower and it was just fantastic.

The Friday 5
1. Would you consider yourself an organized person? Why or why not?
NO, getting better due to some serious toyz
2. Do you keep some type of planner, organizer, calendar, etc. with you, and do you use it regularly?
I have my laptop and phone diary synchronised together one of them regularly beeps at me to do stuff
3. Would you say that your desk is organized right now?
At the moment no, but I have been busy and on shift
4. Do you alphabetize CDs, books, and DVDs, or does it not matter?
Only organise CD's by genre. Organisation of media is only important if a) you have lots of it or b) you want to find something quickly
5. What's the hardest thing you've ever had to organize?
A bit of kit arthur and I where designing and building at my old job needed some serious organisation

Cold Fusion

Well it rearing it ugly little head again with what has to be said is a very interesting article by the New Scientist. All I have to say is there are many things in our universe that we can not even begin to comprehend and write laws about yet, but in order for there to be table top fusion there is some serious physics going on that currently we don't understand. One last thing to all you table top fusioners please please start to monitor neutron rates as it is really the only proper way to determine if fusion is taking place, you pillocks

Well this weekend saw The Villa safe from relegation with a desperate 1-0 win over Sunderland. I hope it gets a bit better next season. I thought we were the biggest club in the midlands!!!!!!!!!! Aparently Graham Talyor is in shake-up talks with Deadly Doug, hopefully this means he is asking to have himself and deadly removed from the premises. You two are the weakest link, goodbye.

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It's good stuff

The Friday 5
1. Name one song you hate to admit you like
Sugarbabes - Stronger (for pop songs, Sugarbabes know what they are doing and this is a strong track)
2. Name two songs that always makes you cry
The Cure - Edge of the Deep Green Sea (Don't really listen this anymore as it just bangs my head into little Davey bits)
Frankie goes to Hollywood - Power of Love (Extended Orchestral Mix) (Just brilliant)
3. Name three songs that turn you on
Madonna - Justify my Love (if doesn't there is some problem with you)
Marvin Gaye - Let's get it on (if you know what I mean!!!!!)
Zero 7 - Distractions (her voice is the don)
4. Name four songs that make you feel good
Stone Roses - Good Times
The Pharcyde - Soulflower
The Beatles - Here Comes the Sun
Snoop Dogg - What's my name
5. Name five songs that you couldn't ever do without
Stone Roses - Song for my Sugar Spun Sister
The Beatles - Blackbird
The Beatles - Cry Baby Cry
Run DMC - Down with the King
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb

A man in a hot air balloon realized he was lost. He reduced altitude and spotted a woman below. He descended a bit more and shouted, "Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don't know where I am." The woman replied, "You're in a hot air balloon hovering approximately 30 feet above the ground. You're between 40 and 41 degrees north latitude and between 59 and 60 degrees west longitude." Frustrated the man responded, "You must be an engineer." "I am," replied the woman, "How did you know?" "Well," answered the balloonist, "everything you told me is technically correct, but I have no idea what to do with your information, and the fact is I'm still lost. Frankly, you've not been much help at all. If anything, you've delayed my trip." The woman below responded, "You must be in Management." "I am," replied the balloonist, "but how did you know?" "Well," said the woman, "you don't know where you are or where you're going. You have risen to where you are due to a large quantity of hot air. You made a promise which you've no idea how to keep, and you expect people beneath you to solve your problems. The fact is you are in exactly the same position you were in before we met, but now, somehow, it's my fault."

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf links
His Blog (no really, honest gov)
A nice website bigging up the Saeed massive!!!
and of course the original welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com - please check out the quotes, the man is a genius

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
PROFILE

Public Relations and Corporate Communications professional with experience in both government and commercial sectors. A proven and skilled communicator with responsibility for managing all media relations in what are often turbulent environments. Tangible successes in presenting realistic and credible reports to both the business community and the general public in the face of an ever increasingly cynical media.

CAREER

BA'ATH PARTY AND IRAQ GOVERNMENT 2001-2003
Minister of Information

Overall responsibility for communication to Iraqi people and world at large of:

• Just how terribly evil those horrid western loutish colonial cowboys, whose moustaches (had they been able to grow them) would have been cursed for ten hundred thousand years, really are.

• Accurate and up to date information of how those silly American and British infidels and their pathetic flying toys and laser things have been slaughtered and humiliated in their millions by brave loyal Iraqi farmers (who weren’t even trying that hard anyway).

• Just how absolutely lovely and brave our beloved and most respected leader is, and more importantly how much we respect and love his blessed and incredibly fashionable moustache which is far better than any western moustache including Tom Selleck, Charles Bronson and Mark Lawrenson all put together.

• Weather and traffic reports.

Reason for leaving: er...... I haven't... I'm still here, surrounded by jubilant Iraqis hitting pictures of George Bush with their flip-flops.

LABOUR PARTY - Millbank
3-month secondment in 2002 to study latest techniques in media management. It allowed for an open forum in which to discuss and share different methods on how to ensure accuracy and integrity when communicating to loyal voters.

ANDERSEN 1998-2001
Head of Corporate Communications:
Responsible for all internal and external communications in what was a challenging time for the partnership. Particular responsibilities included:

• Ensuring that it was made clear that we had absolutely no idea whatsoever that Enron was in any trouble at all and that shareholders should be in no doubt that their investments sound.
• Communicating to the Enron shareholder, Congress Committees and the SEC how much we didn’t help Enron set up off-shore investment vehicles designed to help disguise some of the largest losses ever seen in corporate history.
• Sellotaping together long thin strands of paper so they could be read again.

Reason for leaving: er.... they took over Deloitte & Touche so I left.

Media Consultant to Jeffrey Archer 1993-1998
Responsible for providing a clear and honest message to those members of the infamous UK 'gutter-press' who wished to taint my client and portray him as a mendacious and disreputable man. They even went as far as to claim that Mr. Archer had exaggerated some of his earlier outstanding achievements in the field of academia, sports and politics.

BAGHDAD INFORMER 1985-1993
Journalist
Investigative journalist reporting on all major events at the time.

ALI & BARBAR LAW FIRM 1978- 1985
Publicity Assistant

WATERSTONES - Tikrit 1977-1978
Retail Assistant
Responsible for till operation including calculation of change.

BASRA FRIED CHICKEN 1976-1977
Staff Member
Involved in all aspects of frying and customer care

EDUCATION
University of Baghdad
BA Honours Degree in Philosophy

Tikrit High School
3 A levels (English, Film Studies, Art); 10 O levels

PERSONAL DETAILS
Date of birth: 23/3/1951 Married (3 wives, 17 children)

Interests
Spaghetti Western's, re-runs of "Some Mother's do Have Them", figure skating and torture. I also like to collect Elvis memorabilia.

OK, haven't really discussed the main man, Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf the Iraqi Information Minister but todays blogs are dedicated to him!!

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