Saturday - August 06, 2011

famine in the usual places and the death penalty and scrapping old paint

In addition to all the painting etc but so far more scrapping old first and the prep and the clean up, with prediction of more bad weather this wkend, I put the hedge trimmer and my aching arms to work as there was added growth after last episodes of rain and sun and rain and sun.

Well, I went to work and somehow managed to knock down dead something the wife was trying to encourage to grow.  I simply thought it was a new weed of some sort or maybe the start of a tree.  Anyway, it was kinda bulging out from the hedge which meant things were not looking like a clear and straight line all the way down from the entrance of our driveway to the garage.  So I fixed that. Oh boy.

Wife was trying to fill a small gap in the fencing between us and the house next door.
I offered to install a green painted plywood panel in the gap.
Suggestion didn’t go over too well.  Wife says in future before I get all mow em down happy, I might want to check with her. That only works however if I’m not clear on what something is and can ask.  Otherwise, I trim and cut everything.

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I am now discovering at my advanced age, that laws and rules on how to behave in public. are only meant to control those of us who aren’t criminals.  Others do pretty much as they please, and have lots of help from people known as civil rights lawyers.

I would not imagine prison to be a place to spend your summer vacation.  For many of us, just the thought of being jailed is enough to keep us in line.  For very many others, penalties in place these days aren’t much of a deterrent.  I don’t think I have to list any examples here.  Readers I’m certain have numerous examples of their own.

So, listening to radio news while scrapping old cracked and peeling paint down to bare metal or wood.  I have a bit over a month to finish a project that should take two or three months.  Well anyway, Brits have signed an electronic petition to their government, to re-instate the death penalty.  It means that the folks who rule this place would have to bring the subject up for debate.  Debate.  Not necessarily pass into law very quickly.  Gotta give the bad guys time to kill and maim their hunting limit.
The conservative (lite) head of state is dead set against the DP, and has publicly stated so.  Be interesting to see how this plays out over time.

I think in cases (of which there are far too many) where there is absolute proof and no doubt whatever, not only should hanging be re-instated, but the defense lawyers should hang next to their guilty clients.
A Judge Dee kind of justice.
I think the debate will be no more then the folks in power going through the motions, and have doubts they will bring back the death penalty. As always though ….
Stay Tuned.

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On another unrelated subject ----- Famine in Africa ---- as usual.  And I should care because?  It is being reported (a bit OTT?) that as many as 10,000 Somali children a month face death due to famine.  That has to lead my list of big deal I could care less (yawn) subjects.

Newspapers and media never report the brighter side of stories they see as negatives.
Oh wait.  Ten thousand a month fewer pirates of the future?. That is the bright side.
And as well, 10,000 fewer to breed.  Hmmm. Story gets better and better.

Papers also report that good hearted (and gullible) public has so far responded with something like fifty million in donations, beyond what the govt. sucks out of the public purse for the very same thing.  Which reinforces the old adage of suckers being born in large numbers.

If the world is lucky – whatever aid gets there if it does, will arrive too late and thus relieve many in better ordered societies, of a burden imposed on it for far too long.

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