Death, Hair, Football & Politics

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Date: 15 June 2006 19:08:24

Hair & Death:

First of all an answer for a recent searcher.....

Your hair and nails do continue to grow for a time after death. However you must ensure that you do not mistake stoned hippies, certain cartoon writers, or sleeping females for dead people. They may take offense if you try to bury or cremate them. ;-)

Football:

Today has been dominated by the obvious. From waking this morning until now it has been the World Cup that has been most on my mind. At this point there are mixed feelings....

England won. Rooney played. Gerrard scored another last minute stormer past Shaka Hislop, the Trinidad and West Ham goalkeeper. What I hate most is the press coverage tomorrow.

The fact that England took almost the full 90 minutes before scoring will be ignored. They will be touted as the guaranteed finalists. However their comeuppance is just around the corner. They meet either Ecuador, the so called surprise team, or Germany, England's bogey team, in the first of the knockout rounds.

Where can I get an Ecuador or German shirt at short notice?

Politics

One of my pleasures is listening to Prime Mionister's Questions on the radio at 12:00 on a Wednesday. Its the nearest we get to political debate most of the time.

Yesterday it was dominated by the lax sentences supposedly handed down by the courts. This has been a big item of news in the UK over the last week. The Scum (Sun), our popular Murdoch tabloid has started a campaign to shame "soft" judges.

Tony The Phoney was happy to blame the oppostion for this and saying how his party have toughened the sentencing policies that the Conservatives voted against. How its the judges at fault. The government's 2003 Criminal Justice Bill had strengthened the protection offered to society against incarcerated criminals.

Remember Tone's a lawyer. He should know.

Today we hear that the Lord Chancellor has defended the judges by saying that in the highlighted case the judge had produced the strongest sentence he could. It was the government's 2003 Criminal Justice Bill that had led to a "life", which means 18 years, sentence being reduced to 5 years, before the guy is elligible for parole.

Now we here that the government are reviewing ways to strengthen their legislation. Yesterday it was strong. Today it needs strengthening.

This is what I hate about politicians of all parties. They say things that are not true. They play party politics with our lives. Its not what's best for us but what keeps them in power.

3 years ago we were told that nuclear power was not an option, economically or politically. A few weeks ago Tone announces that it will be a major part of the present energy reviews policies.

Can we get rid of the waste safely? No. Can we securely store it without losing it? No.

What happened to democracy and consensus?