Relaxed Muscle

So...this week the American gun lobby completely lost the plot.

In a breath-taking display of ignorance, Gun Owners of America executive director Larry Pratt called for gun laws on American university campuses to relaxed rather than tightened. As reported in The Daily Mail, he has attempted to justify his call by claiming that the massacre could have been ended had the students been allowed to carry weapons.

It seems the idea of changing US gun legislation to prevent Joe Average from purchasing lethal weaponry from the local store completely eludes Mr Pratt, whose brains are evidently made of jam. The full official statement issued by the GOA goes on to turn the country's single most deadly gun massacre into a chance to snipe at the Democrats, essentially claiming that the massacre is giving the Democrat controlled Congress another opportunity to
crack down on America's liberal gun laws.

The 'logic' Mr. Jam for Brains appears to be displaying is that if you gave everyone in a university a firearm, they'd eventually filter out all the nut-jobs and open up a can of vigilante-style whoop-ass on them.

The gaping hole in this argument, and might I add one that only a total imbecile would miss, is that once the first shot is fired, panic ensues, ultimately leaving you with a body count twice the size of what it may have been with just one gunman as a hail of bullets flies in both directions.

It is apparent to me, and also to all straight-thinking people, that the only option the US has is to impose draconian anti-gun legislation to attempt to get the situation under control. However, as the saying goes, 'you reap what you sow', and the massively out-dated constitution America holds so dear will only cause their gun problem to spiral even further out of control.

Any amendment to the constitution, it seems, is an infringement to somebody's rights. A right to life is, in this case, out of the question.

You have to ask what those who vigourously defend their right to bear arms are crying about. They claim it's their right to protect themselves with lethal weaponry, but fail to see that were firearms not so readily available or indeed, illegal, they wouldn't have to defend themselves in the first place.

Maybe those that defend their right to lethal weapons simply do so because they themselves harbour twisted fantasies of one day committing their very own atrocity.

Uncle Pat.

Cold on the Warming

I've been weighing this up for a while now, and it just doesn't seem to make any sense. Yes, global warming is (un)officially bollocks.

Throughout the course of natural history our relatively diminutive planet has faced constantly changing extremes in temperature (unless you're a Christian, in which case the ice-age didn't happen and neither did dinosaurs. God just put the evidence there to fool the unbelievers) and in not one of these cases can the change be attributed in any way to human activity.

Let me put this into perspective. In the early 1800s Britain went through a concerted period of industrialisation. Factories were built, goods were produced in larger numbers than ever before and the entire landscape of industry in this country, and ultimately the world, was forever changed. Yet despite the relatively phenomenal increase in carbon emissions there was no change whatsoever in global temperature.

Ok, so you might argue that the fact that global climate at this time remained unchanged is because Britain is geographically speaking a very tiny nation. But it wasn't long until the rest of what we now consider to be the international heavy-weights followed suit, and still no change.

So, could it in fact be the case that we are simply facing yet another natural change in global climate in our ever-evolving world? It seems somewhat pompous to declare that it is indeed the human race, and in particular the 'Western' world, that is causing this change when a volcano can belch forth smoke and ash into the atmosphere which on the scale of things equals the carbon emissions of the entire planet in just one day. And even then, within one year all this 'damage' to the environment is dispersed and neutralised by the planet naturally, without human aid.

So, in fact, the damage we are doing to the planet is negligible.

Simply put, the Global Warming scare, and a scare is precisely what it is, an international scam aimed, once more, at keeping the impoverished nations that make up Africa in check. The Western world has prevented third world countries from industrialising by playing the GW trump card. The repercussions of this are immense and too diverse to go into in one post, but essentially, should Africa industrialise the Western world will gradually lose it's strangle hold on the third world as they begin to look after themselves and earn an independence they have not known for generations.

Global powers such as Britain and the US cannot allow this to happen. They wear the 'World Police' badge with pride, and chances are it will not be relinquished any time soon.

Signing off for now, more to come...

A Tealight Under the Cauldron

The waters may be less than luke warm by now, but it seemed about time to test them once more not just to see if they were ready to boil once more, but also to see if the spies of the not-so-glorious Third Reich of the Farnham University College for the Creative Arts (or indeed FUCCA) were still spying on me.

Lets consider the past 18 or so months to be a somewhat necessary extended leave of absence from the blogging community in this particular guise of mine. Yes, the past glories of the mighty Dome could not be permitted to just sink unnoticed into the online septic tank responsible for clogging so many of the tubes we know make up the internets.

Anyway, like a giant electronic shoe horn (except it's designed for blogs not shoes) I'll be slipping the Dome back into action at a gradual pace. Essentially, think of it as the 'Somewhat Bemused Dome' for now, but fear not, it will again grow into the Angry Dome you know and love, or in some cases hate.

That's it for the opening gambit, the re-launch cometh this week.

Uncle Pat.