London Inferno

This fire in a London residential tower is really a simple matter. Flammable cladding was added to the exterior of an eye-sore for the benefit of the wealthier property owners in the area who did not like their views being sullied by a run down building filled with poor people, many of them recent immigrants.

The morality and legality of the act is determined by what was known at the time.

Firefighters had just knocked down a small electrical fire that had started in a refrigerator and were leaving the building when the exterior erupted into a major fire. So the response of the authorities should have been better and faster. There was no warning system in the building and the fire apparatus on scene did not constantly cycle their sirens as a warning to the residents to flee.

Now it seems the disaster is a big rallying cry for everyone from real churches to Scientology. The residents had been complaining about the lack of a building wide fire alarm or a safe means of emergency egress. Nothing was done.

Its a matter for lawyers, press releases and politicians now.

Manchester Police Response

What idiots the Greater Manchester Police are to spread such panic. Darned PC saying 'there may be devices' over and over again. Fine, There may be Martians too. if you find a Martian, say so. If you find a suspicious device, say so. Until then keep your yap shut.

Managers telling diners to stop eating and cower on the floor . What fools they are. And then plunge a crowded room into darkness. Idiots.

PC is supposed to mean Police Constable not Puny Coward. What do they call them Blodgett Specials?

Health Care and Public Expenditures

Okay, there are ordinary radiation machines to treat cancer and there are Proton radiation machines to treat cancer. The much more massive and expensive proton machines are claimed to be better. Certainly the people who sell and service them claim they are better. Experts do not necessarily agree.

So should a state pay to construct an extremely expensive device in the hopes of drawing patients into a medical tourism enterprise or should a state simply treat its own citizens in a more proven and cheaper manner?

Terrorism Statistics

Tired of hearing about having a greater chance of being struck by lightning than killed by a terrorist? What about the COST of disrupting the lives of thousands of people and costing businesses thousands of dollars. Cops bellowing, cowering on the floor in the dark, contradictory orders, "there may be devices" (well, jerk, there may be Martians also).

The experts keep telling us if we retaliate militarily we just create more terrorists, what the experts don't realize is that those newly created terrorists have to survive our attack.

We have to get serious. Destroy Iran's oil industry, airports, missles, planes, factories of all types, roads, and electrical generation and transmission facilities. Kill ALL those who try to send humanitarian aid. Sink all their naval and merchant marine vessels. Refuse to recognize them as a civilized nation.

Yes, some terrorists may be created by the process, but the nation will suffer an eighty percent population drop and most of those new terrorists will starve to death anyway.

Rapists Rights

In the State of Indiana a woman who gives birth to a child that was conceived following a rape has three months to ban the rapist from seeking visitation rights. If she fails to do this, the rapist will automatically be able to force visitation with his offspring until age 18.