Sometimes you can try to make a stand, and most times it’ll fail.

I got notification in the post that the Thames Valley Cops intend to prosecute me for not supplying information about the driver of a car that was done for speeding last year in Reading.

It was probably me that was driving, it’s my car in the piccies and I was the main driver at the time. But I wasn’t the only one. Jude was visiting Reading on Christmas shopping trips, hospital appointments and visits to her sister around that time and we’d often swap cars to cut down on her petrol bill (I get all my petrol paid for by the company). What to do? Take the rap, the fine and the points on the licence or ask them to prove who the offender was? What is justice

I chose the ‘prove it was me’ route and my bluff was called. Not for me the luxury afforded to Christine Hamilton and her ilk, I’m in court in August looking at a £1000 fine and no doubt a shitload of points on my licence, virgin as it is. I knew that my points cherry would be popped at some point, but is there any chance of a seemly struggle…nope say the local plod.

The only good part to this tale is the fact I have a lovely piccie of the back of my car, doing 49mph in a 40mph zone, full brake lights shining (I made a slight effort to slow down) and it was before the car got so dirty as to be mortifying. I _do_ wash it, just not often enough.

It’s just a car, all it does is get me from A to B, sometimes too fast.

Looks like there’s nothing that a good hubbard victim won’t stoop to in order to ream in the moolah for his church…

This is truly pathetic. Any chance of getting this fruitcake banned from movies and TV for life?
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This is a juvenile but slightly amusing waste of a few minutes.

via Boing Boing

I’m not a fanatically political person, but when you read shite like this, you have to wonder just what the hell the US administration are playing at.

US admits falsely claiming that terrorism had declined

“The US State Department has admitted that it was wrong to claim that worldwide terrorism had declined last year. In April, the State Department claimed that the number of terrorist attacks last year had declined significantly compared to the previous year. The statement was used to boost one of US President George W Bush’s main foreign policy claims – success in his “war against terror”. However, the State Department has now admitted that the number of terrorist incidents and the number of people killed in terrorist attacks actually increased sharply last year.”

In other words, total lies are being told. I don’t know if Kerry would be any better if elected, but you’d hope so. Bush and his cohorts are corrupting the US from within, and seem incapable of facing up to facts.