Archive for October, 2007
Lets us beat kids with a stick
Watching BBC News 24 this morning I viewed an interview with a member of the Prison Officer’s Association with mounting unease. The POA are seeking permission to allow Officers to carry and use ‘expendable batons’ on offenders as young as 15.
Questioned closely by the BBC interviewer the spokesman admitted that the situation had grown to [...]
I am not an fan of the English rugby team but…
I am not a fan of the English rugby team (being of Welsh stock) so I think I can be objective about that team’s defeat in last night’s World Cup Final.
South Africa’s points all came from penalties (obviously awarded by the referee). The disallowed Try was in fact a Try. Many offences that should have [...]
I am not a Tory but….
I am not a Tory, but I feel uneasy when a Government Cabinet Minister Geoff (this and every year’s labour patsy) Hoon accuses the Tories of “undermining democracy” by using money donated by Lord Ashcroft (Tory Deputy Chairman) to target marginal constituencies. This is not currently illegal, the amount spent per constituency is only capped during the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Ming FU’d by the Hood?
So old man Ming has (if you believe the official line) decided to step down as Lib Dem leader ‘for the good of the party.’ But, did he step down, or did he jump? Was he, perhaps, stabbed in the back like Caesar by less honourable and smaller men?
The Lib Dem pack that are circling round his [...]
Deathrow – A game review
Strange days indeed…
When I first got my X360 I was pleased that it would play some original Xbox games. I thought, correctly, that new games would be few and far between. How right I was. However, nearly two years later, it’s amazing how little the situation has changed…
A friend remarked, just the other day, “Do [...]
Theres an echo in here Gordon
Not only has Gordon the Brown pinched the Tories’ inheritance tax reduction idea, he has also pinched their ‘lets look at those naughty violent video game thingies that are polluting our children’s precious body fluids’ twitter. If he cares to read my blog on the subject from last month he’ll read,
“The current UK government ordered [...]
X360 Games – Mini Reviews by a very grumpy old games player
Halo 3
Halo again. Not as good as the original, better than the second game (it has an end), but ultimately a disappointment… yes you read it right… a disappointment. Graphics are ok but not brilliant, sound ok, guns… well Halo guns. The game play in the single player campaign seems to have been altered a little… [...]
If anyone has any information about the Civil War service of Light Company A, Second U.S. Artillery, please contact me via this site. I am particularly interested in individual members of the battery - officers, non-commissioned officers or privates.
SPECIAL NOTICE: Over the next few weeks I will be migrating all the existing information about Battery A from this site to one decated to the subject. See Battery A 2nd US Artillery link in Blogroll below.
