It's late, I'm tired and the level of idiocy out there

is enough, to quote Quint, to piss off the Good Humor man.

From, as Uncle puts it, where Great Britain used to be,
The British Medical Association (BMA) and Association of Chief Police Officers have discussed ways in which doctors can be made aware of patients who own firearms.

The BMA's plan to "tag" - or highlight - the medical records of patients who have shotgun or firearms licences have received a mixed reaction.
No kidding. The answer?
A spokeswoman for Acpo said: "Acpo and BMA have been exploring a number of options as to how information can be shared, without breaching patient confidentiality, and yet ensuring improved public safety."
Translation: "Screw your privacy and your life and your remaining liberties; WE say this is good for you."

You might recall that a while back Dermot Ahern, the Irish Minister for Justice, was making plans to ban ownership of handguns, then move on to ALL firearms. Not because the people jumping through hoops to get a permit were murdering & such; no, to prevent the 'proliferation of firearms'; the translation of his bullcrap was "The shooting sports are getting more popular, and I don't like it, so I'm going to ban guns." Well, the bastard is getting what he wants:
UNDER new legislation, all gun owners are required to invest a huge amount of time, satisfying complex and confusing red tape requirements, according to IFA countryside chairman David Wilkinson. He called on the justice minister to rethink the newly introduced licensing system for firearms.

Mr Wilkinson said, “This new system is a logistical nightmare which does not recognise the outstanding record of those who have legally-held firearms in this country in the past.

“IFA Countryside has been inundated with complaints from worried members who are seriously considering abandoning the sport altogether.”
Mr. Wilkinson, you don't seem to understand: making people give up their arms is exactly what Ahern and the other GFW nannies want.


LabRat points us to an idiot-level climate activist who apparently not only wants most of the population to die, but somehow wants to make sure we never again advance beyond hunter-gatherer stage:
If we live at all, we will have to figure out how to live locally and sustainably. Living locally means we are able get everything we need within walking (or animal riding) distance. We may eventually figure out sustainable ways of moving beyond those small circles to bring things home, but our track record isn’t good and we’d better think it through very carefully.

Likewise, any technology has to be locally based, using local resources and accessible tools, renewable and non-toxic. We have much re-thinking to do, and re-learning from our hunter-gatherer forebears who managed to survive for a couple of hundred thousand years in ways that we with our civilized blinders we can barely imagine or understand.[8]
Note the 'If we live at all'; he really doesn't want us to. He's one more "The Earth would be better off without us" jackass, except he would allow the human race to survive, but only if some way could be found to prevent the survivors from EVER advancing back to agriculture and metalwork. Because agriculture and metalwork would mean growing population and mining and other such disgusting advancements. As somebody said in the comments, "Makes you want to whack him in the head with an antelope thighbone."


Baldilocks notes that President Obama spent twenty years nodding his head in a pew to the sermons of a black theology preacher, which means
Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the Black community. If God is not for us and against White people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of Black theology is to kill Gods who do not belong to the Black community ... Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy.


House Democrats are willing to rally around Rep. Charles Rangel in his latest spate of tax missteps — but only as long as no more embarrassing revelations come to light, sources told The Post.
Tells you all you need to know, doesn't it?


This pretty much makes it official: the British government sucks.
The British government decided it was “in the overwhelming interests of the United Kingdom” to make Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, the Lockerbie bomber, eligible for return to Libya, leaked ministerial letters reveal.

Gordon Brown’s government made the decision after discussions between Libya and BP over a multi-million-pound oil exploration deal had hit difficulties. These were resolved soon afterwards.

The letters were sent two years ago by Jack Straw, the justice secretary, to Kenny MacAskill, his counterpart in Scotland, who has been widely criticised for taking the formal decision to permit Megrahi’s release.

The correspondence makes it plain that the key decision to include Megrahi in a deal with Libya to allow prisoners to return home was, in fact, taken in London for British national interests.
'Compassionate reasons' my ass; unless you consider 'making the British government billions' to be compasionate.

Crap. I need some air.