Tuesday, December 26, 2006
It is easy to fit in - just stop thinking
Thursday, December 21, 2006
Raccons and the Anti-Christ
This is in reply to an article in the Something Cool News (to who I owe that most interesting title), www.somethingcool.ca, aticle found at the link below.
Fred, Fred, Fred...
An old apocalyptican like yourself does not recognize the appearance of Psycho Killer Racoons and that story being reported loudly on the ABC website as a sign of the approaching apocalypse?
Alternatively I suppose that you could take it as a genetic consequence of years of mistreating the environment. No - not the racoons, who are only acting naturally, but human beings. What else besides genetic and brain damage as a result of environmental excesses could explain this taking place. Yes I know we are speaking of Americans, but not even Americans can be that stupid without factoring in genetic and mental damages inflicted by environmental poisonning.
I suppose it does not really matter. Approaching Apocalypse or brain damage the result will be the same since, in a Universe set in motion to evolve intelligent live, even if it is only genetics and brain damage the Universe would have no other option but extinction of the humans to permit evolution to take another shot at evolving an intelligent species. In either case the effect, and thus from the view of humanity, is the same.
Fred, Fred, Fred...
An old apocalyptican like yourself does not recognize the appearance of Psycho Killer Racoons and that story being reported loudly on the ABC website as a sign of the approaching apocalypse?
Alternatively I suppose that you could take it as a genetic consequence of years of mistreating the environment. No - not the racoons, who are only acting naturally, but human beings. What else besides genetic and brain damage as a result of environmental excesses could explain this taking place. Yes I know we are speaking of Americans, but not even Americans can be that stupid without factoring in genetic and mental damages inflicted by environmental poisonning.
I suppose it does not really matter. Approaching Apocalypse or brain damage the result will be the same since, in a Universe set in motion to evolve intelligent live, even if it is only genetics and brain damage the Universe would have no other option but extinction of the humans to permit evolution to take another shot at evolving an intelligent species. In either case the effect, and thus from the view of humanity, is the same.
Saturday, December 16, 2006
Re: Government shouldn't pay for criminal's tatoos.
Like so may people, on many social issues, Ms Bjarnason demonstrates a failure to see beyond the headlines and make the effort to understand the underlying facts and issues.
The “safe ink in jail” program was about “other issues that needed addressing”. I would like to suggest that Ms Bjarnason, and any others who agreed with her statements, acquaint themselves with the reasons behind this pilot program.
While I may like the idea of “safe ink” and tattooing in prison, the success of this approach in addressing the problems caused by unsafe ink in prisons, means that I do support keeping and expanding this program. No doubt part of this support is because I have no false expectations that unsafe ink and tattooing are preventable, except at prohibitive costs to the taxpayer and society.
To make decisions on issues and actions based on thoughtless reactions to superficial headlines or catch phrases, paying no heed to the actual facts, leads not only to bad policy but so often to significantly increased hidden costs – in terms of dollars and (common) sense.
This public preference for making decisions, forming opinions or voting on the basis of this sounds terrible (good), this agrees with what I believe and/or don’t confuse me with the facts approach “is ridiculous”.
The “safe ink in jail” program was about “other issues that needed addressing”. I would like to suggest that Ms Bjarnason, and any others who agreed with her statements, acquaint themselves with the reasons behind this pilot program.
While I may like the idea of “safe ink” and tattooing in prison, the success of this approach in addressing the problems caused by unsafe ink in prisons, means that I do support keeping and expanding this program. No doubt part of this support is because I have no false expectations that unsafe ink and tattooing are preventable, except at prohibitive costs to the taxpayer and society.
To make decisions on issues and actions based on thoughtless reactions to superficial headlines or catch phrases, paying no heed to the actual facts, leads not only to bad policy but so often to significantly increased hidden costs – in terms of dollars and (common) sense.
This public preference for making decisions, forming opinions or voting on the basis of this sounds terrible (good), this agrees with what I believe and/or don’t confuse me with the facts approach “is ridiculous”.
