Shoot to kill?

Let's start with some politics!

Britain remains in a raised state of alert, Bush is happily twiddling his thumbs, enjoying the carnage he seems to be continually causing globally, Blair is still acting like his little lapdog and innocent 27 year old Brazilians are getting shot.


Now, before anyone starts having a shout, hear me out first. I do not condemn the officers who riddled Jean Charles de Menezes' body with holes, or Sir Ian Blair for standing by them, supporting his officers, the country is currently under attack and drastic times call for drastic measures. If you run away from armed officers, towards the location of a recent terrorist attack, jump over safety barriers, and refuse to yield, expect the most unexpectable repercussions. And as you can see below, quite a big percentage of interviewees believe that the "Shoot to kill" policy should not be relaxed at present:



My condolences do, however, go out to the friends and family of Mr Menezes, losing anyone close to you is hard to do, even more so in these circumstances.

Anyway's that's the rant on that done, more arrests during last night, more "suspect packages" found, I really am glad that I'm nowhere near it to be quite selfish yet brutally honest about it all.

Someone who is over there though is on of the funniest, most caring, loving person I have ever had the absolute pleasure of knowing. Siobhan's been in Bristol/Exmouth since Friday, though she left England yesterday for Dublin, and will be there till the weekend. To quote The Police's (she'll love me for this!) "The bed's too big without you" is a complete and utter understatement. I feel like I'm missing a limb, I wander round the (very small let me remind everyone) flat like a dog who's lost his bone, and to make matters all so much worse, the insomnia is back... HOORAY! On a brighter note, so is my appetite, which was getting rather worrying, but I'm ravenous all the time again now, so maybe I'm heading back to the good ol' AHS! (Andy's Happy State)

This involves, feeling persistently hungry, sleeping 3-4 hours a day at most, reading a lot, and watching sunrises. I may have to stay at Siobhan's more often for that though, as her house faces east, and you get some cracking views :) Though I don't know if they beat some of the sunsets I get from my place , remember these:




Yesterday's launch of the space shuttle discovery seems to have gone off without a hitch, even if there were reports of sheilding/heat panels falling off during take off... Still, what do you expect using technology from the 50s and 60s, because as we all know, most of it is just "upgraded" to meet present requirements anyways... Like M$ Windows, same shit underneath, new name on top! And what's with the name Vista anyways?!!?

I leave you with this rather amusing link where you can read about how they plan to have a space station on the Moon, which they plan to use to hop over to mars for some more spacial exploration... Godspeed... ya big bunch of loons!!!! And not this type either, I'm talking proper crazy: