The world never ceases to amaze me

The reason for the title is for a number of reasons. Habib Khan, a Muslim from Stoke-on-Trent, was jailed for eight years for stabbing his neighbour – a British Nationalist Party member – to death. Whilst I’ll never condone people going outside the law in most cases, I sympathise with Mr Khan because it’s quite obvious that living next door to a BNP member would have been worse than a death sentence.

Then there’s the case of a guy from the Russian state of Ingushetia being shot dead. The owner of a prominent website criticising the state government of Ingushetia in Russia was shot dead – according to police reports he was being led to a car when he tried to grab a police pistol and was shot in the head. Do the Russians really think they’re fooling anyone?

I’m getting rather miffed at the current state of affairs on this planet. It won’t do.

Use of the death penalty

I read a few days ago one method of executing people in Iran is to bury those sentenced to death in the ground; men up to their waists, and women up to their neck.   Then people throw specially selected rocks at their head – big enough to cause pain and suffering, but not big enough to kill them outright.

This punishment would be perfect for this woman convicted of killing her one-month old daughter by microwaving her.   If anyone ever deserved to die a painful and horrible death, it’s this woman.

No Respect For The Russians

I’ve always had a respect for Russia since Vladimir Putin was President. He made the country strong and respected throughout the world again.

I even emailed President Medvedev and said something like although I think Russia’s assassination of Alexandar Litvnenko with nuclear material was a nuclear attack on Britain, I admired Vladimir Putin for making Russia strong.

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Contributing Factors for Rape

I was doing some general web browsing for nothing in particular when I came across a story on BBC News about a female rape victim who successfully had a ruling overturned that reduced her compensation because she had been consuming alcohol before the attack. That got me to thinking… about whether provocative clothing is one of the causes of rape. Read more...

Friends and Nazis

Lately I’ve pretty much lost contact with two of my friends.   I think one is about to get back with her husband who she was going to divorce, and the other just got a boyfriend who I despise.   They’re both being distant and kind of cold and I’m not really sure why.   I think I’m going to lose them both as friends – what will be, will be.

The reason matters not, and I hate it when I don’t get to talk regularly to my mates… so it really sucks when things like this happens.

Someone recently made a very   unabashed comment on the article I have on my website about the .   It was actually quite funny – check out the comment by Caroline on July 29th.

Incidently she is the second person to deny the statement that Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, is a grandson of Queen Victoria.   For all of you doubters out there… as you can read on the ,   Prince Philip’s mother was Princess Alice of Battenburg, who was the daughter of Princess Victoria of Hesse, whose mother was another Princess Alice, Victoria’s second daughter and third child.