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Farage & UKIP
February 25th, 2010 Ian Posted in Comment, Politics | No Comments »
There may be questions about the direction of Europe and the powers of the member state but if Mr Farage of UKIP thinks that his insulting words about the Herman Van Rompuy then going on to Belgium as a “non-country” is somehow a replacement than a well thought out and coherent argument about the issues over Europe then I hope he will find the people who voted for him withdraw their support.
If the hight of his debating skills are to insult an individual & country then he has no right to represent anyone and if this is the best that UKIP have then perhaps they should just fade away and let the grown ups talk and debate.
Down the range
February 17th, 2010 Ian Posted in Via Email | No Comments »
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Tonight I am down the range with Master and Little Miss English Shooter, good fun is being had by all.
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Legality, does that apply to us?
February 17th, 2010 Ian Posted in Via Email | No Comments »
Two stories that have caught my eye this week about the lack of thought that government & the police give to the law are the following:
It looks like the unmanned drones that where used by Merseyside police have not been cleared by the Civil Aviation Authority and that the all aver body scanners that are going in at Air Ports up and down the country may be breaking discrimination law as well as breaching passengers' rights to privacy.
But twitter is not like that.
February 17th, 2010 Ian Posted in Via Email | No Comments »
One of the annoying things about twitter is that you can not edit your tweets, you can not correct a spelling error but what you can do is delete your tweet and the tweet a corrected tweet again.
Why is this important?
Well a Labor whip has had to apologise for a tweet about something or other, in his apology he has said his tweet was "tinkered with" to make it "more offensive" but sadly for him you can not do that on twitter, it is not Facebook (you can edit a posting on Facebook).
Perhaps if MP's want to hide behind the I did not do it excuse then they should know what is possible & what is not from a technology point of view, I thought what he said was quite funny it caused me no issue but what I do not like the the lie that he has used to cover up something he wished he had not said.
As with most things it is not what you have done that people will judge you harshly for it is the way you spin & lie to cover up what you have done that causes the damage & mistrust.
Street light dimmer switch technology
February 17th, 2010 Ian Posted in Via Email | No Comments »
What a fantastic idea, I want one them on my road so it dims at night during the summer.
I am not too worried about saving the money or energy but it would go a long way to improving everyone view of the night sky on a nice summers night.
Dimmer switch technology will be fitted to thousands of replacement street lights in Coventry to help save energy and money.
Quote for the day
February 17th, 2010 Ian Posted in Via Email | No Comments »
"The details are not correct. The date of birth is wrong. I've never been to Dubai. I went to bed with pneumonia and woke up a murderer," he said.
From the BBC story about Fake Passports being used in Dubai.
Duty is a funny thing
February 11th, 2010 Ian Posted in Via Email | No Comments »
When an individual put’s them selves up for election and in the course of time wins a seat they have a responsibility and duty to serve and represent those in their constituency.
In Scotland one of the MSPs is catching a little flack for representing one of her constituencies who has been accused of defrauding the DWP of £80,000.00, she has been quotes as saying that she is duty bound to represent those in her constituency.
The writs and wrongs of this fraud case are one thing but would Nicola Sturgeon have represented someone with the same vigour if they where interested in firearms? I somehow doubt it.
Labour and privacy
February 11th, 2010 Ian Posted in Via Email | No Comments »
From the BBC website.
"The Labour Party broke privacy rules by making automated phone calls to nearly 500,000 people without their consent, the information watchdog has ruled."
Is this a shock to anyone?
After all they are the party of Big Brother a quick phone call reminding you who you should be thankful too is not a surprise and neither is their lack compliance to the rules they have set up for others.
Google Buzz
February 11th, 2010 Ian Posted in Via Email | No Comments »
Now I like Google, but I can not quite see the point of Google Buzz, still it is worth a look at.
My Google Buzz profile thing is: http://www.google.com/profiles/iansblog take a look and try it out, I can not quite see how it differs from Twitter or Facebook but it will update it’s status from your Twitter feed so linking them is not problem. Saying that the linking is not working at the moment 
The problem with takiing kids to Potters
February 6th, 2010 Ian Posted in Via Email | No Comments »
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The problem with taking kids to the gun shop is they see things…
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Shooting press way behind
February 2nd, 2010 Ian Posted in 2012 Olimpics, NRA, Politics | No Comments »
A story went up on Shooting UK today about the fact that British Shooting have been told to pay £400,000.00 towards it’s own Olympic Legacy.
The £400,00.000 price tag is what the government estimates it will cost to make the facility’s in the temporary shooting ground relocatable and usable by British Shooting to provide a legacy.
Glynn Alger from the NRA is saying that with the government paying the best part of £60 million for a temporary facility is not leaving much of a legacy for the sport and the only way we will great any legacy for the sport is to stump up £400,000.00.
So onto the point, this story was reported in the Telegraph on 11 January 2010 and only today 2 Feb 2010 is it getting to the shooting press via the Shooting UK.
It makes me wonder just where all of the back room deals have gone, when I first launched Resurrect the Sport I was told that some deals had been made with the government and there was no need for such a website, that they would look after us. Can we be surprised that such deals if they ever excised have not been stuck too? The NRA & Bisley shooting ground are getting a little hot under the collar because they have missed the boat on the money that they so badly need to invest in the countries leading shooting ground, and the lot of the shooting public has not been improved and by the looks of it will not be improved.
Not only have the last two governments let the shooting public down (both Labour & Conservative) but by their attempt at placating the people with money so have the Bisley Shooting Ground and the NRA.
The NRA will need to realise that shooting is a political football and not a popular one, unless they come out along with the other shooting organisations with One Voice for shooting then out sport & way of live is on it’s last legs.
The shooting organisations need to understand that as much as the shooting press lag behind the main stream press when it comes to stories such as this, the NRA & others are as far behind with the politics of shooting sports.
It is time for all shooting organisations to stand with one voice, sadly they have not managed it yet and I see no indications that they will in the near future, lets hope they manage it before it is too late and there is no voice to he herd.
awooooooo!!!
January 31st, 2010 Ian Posted in Music, YouTube | No Comments »
This is my song of the day, and also album of the week!!
Adding electrolyte
January 30th, 2010 Ian Posted in Via Email | No Comments »
Well the snow has gone, the sun is out time to get the bike ready, first power.
The way Britain is governed has gone wrong.
January 27th, 2010 Ian Posted in Politics | No Comments »
This is from a group of former civil servants, in a report about the way the business of government is being executed in the UK or rather how it should not be executed in the UK.
While on radio 4 this morning the group where talking about policy & law being made up on the spur of the moment or in a knee jerk reaction to headlined, criticising both the previous & current governments.
They are calling for better governance in government, something I am sure will be ignored & ridiculed.
Perhaps they would support the Great Repeal Bill, it is a pity that this idea does not get a little more coverage.
The cheek
January 27th, 2010 Ian Posted in Plagiarism or imitation | No Comments »
Very, very tong in cheek
While imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, plagiarism is not on, at least have the curtsey of hosting your own images even if you nick the text.
Still it is nice to see that the neighbourhood watch website are keeping an eye on us
You may recognise the following news item A very organised neighbourhood watch? on the neighbourhoodwatch.net web site as a posting from this blog from yesterday A very organised neighbourhood watch?:
Quote of the day
January 27th, 2010 Ian Posted in Quote of the day | No Comments »
“If the people who make the decisions are the people who will also bear the consequences of those decisions, perhaps better decisions will result.” – John Abrams
Are we keeping you up?
January 26th, 2010 Ian Posted in Comment, Politics | No Comments »
From the Digital Economy Bill debate going on at this very moment in the Lords, and the political parties winder why we have little time for them.
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