Interesting little video

I am not going to go into a "it is all Nick's fault rant", but the metamorphosis is incredible. Maybe I should just laugh.

The Beast File: Catholic Church Sex Scandals

via youtube.com

All about cats and wheelie bins

 I don't know what her problem is but at least it proves that not all anti-social behaviour is caused by hooded teenagers and the middle aged can be thugs too. At least  from the cat's point of view.  But I think that the problem has to be dealt by the RSPCA and eventually by her doctor and  by the police. It should not be dealt by the YouTube or Facebook mob. As much as I dislike cruelty to any animal, large and small, I also don't like a society where, for every provocation, the hysteric crowd turns up shouting abuse, describing the type of torture and suffering they would like to inflict, demanding the death penalty or other forms of revenge when knowing only some of the facts. Nasty stuff.
Woman dumped cat in bin as a 'joke' - Home News, UK - The Independent

'Get out of Lib-Con pact before it is too late'

via guardian.co.uk

"Nick Clegg was warned to get out of his pact with the Conservatives before it was too late as his partnership with David Cameron was compared to the troubled marriage of Cheryl and Ashley Cole."
I don't find many reasons to support this coalition and I agree that the Lib Dems have lost credibility but what other options did Nick Clegg actually have?
Support a coalition with Labour which would have had most of the media against ? The "Coalition of the losers" would have been unpopular, it would have lasted a short time and would have eventually given a clear majority to the Tories at the following election. And the LibDems would have lost credibility.
Not supporting the Tories well it would have proven that there cannot be a role for a third party and no point of any electoral reform etc. And he would have been blamed for letting the country down during a crisis, putting party interests before the country's etc. And the LibDems would have lost credibility.

Can the Coalition succeed?

Can the Coalition succeed? A response to David Marquand

I can take all this on board but I still do not think that the coalition will succeed and it is not doing anything that revolutionary, I don't see many big ideas just a lot of populism and scapegoating.  I don't think that anything like the Big Society can work when at the same time people are encouraged to grass on their neighbours if suspected of benefits fraud. I also don't think that a Prime Minister who calls part of the population "scroungers" can then advocate for an all inclusive society. I read comments around the internet and many people do not seem to be able to distinguish between a fraudster and a terminally ill person, as many shout that they do not want to pay tax for people who fall ill without being able to provide for themselves (as if that could be called a career choice). If this climate is the consequence of three months of coalition (Labour was not much better with  the ESA/ATOS fiasco and its eagerness to please the readers of the Daily Mail) I do worry a lot as it is not the type of society I want to be living in, with people thinking only what do I get? before doing anything and full of double standards. I am not even going to mention tax evasion and tax avoidance (I know the latter is legal but if we are so much in debt and all together in this, at least  some loopholes could be closed).
I do agree that we need to review the way we live,  the type of extreme capitalism we have had for the past decades has not worked, compensating low wages and high housing costs  with easy credit for everyone has not worked, an economy based on constant growth is not sustainable forever and we will soon have more problems finding raw resources. But I don't see this coalition (and Labour for all that matters) doing anything to address these problems which will come back to haunt us in the future.  The only thing is that if they keep repeating often enough how revolutionary and progressive this coalition is people might start to believe  it's true.

And now we need absolute monarchy

This  video comes from the rather good Pharyngula, I have to say the guy has a point, if I  allowed to vote only  people who agree with me, my life would be a lot easier.  I would like to know who were these Catholic  absolute monarchs who loved their people so much. I must have missed them.
Update: the video attracted to much criticism and was removed so I  change the video.

I don't intend to give up blogging

After a few weeks of silence I am back. I will try to concentrate my daily rant on this blog rather than just writing on forums and commenting on newspapers. I will continue to that do at the risk of becoming a clicktivist but I like to have my own home too. Therefore I moved from Posterous to here for a long list of reasons (nothing to do with the fact that Posterous was down most of last week). I will still use Posterous to post images as it is easier (one thing I don't like about Blogger is the lack of a decent bookmarklet).