audentes fortuna iuvat

When he was 16 years old, Sean Mercer shot Rhys outside the Fir Tree pub in Croxteth Park, Liverpool, in August 2007, as the 11-year-old walked home from football practice.

In March this year, Jake Fahri was convicted of the murder of Jimmy Mizen, 16, bled to death when an artery in his neck was severed as he was hit by a glass dish in a bakery n May 2008.

To round things out, now apparently Mercer has attacked Fahri in the exercise yard at HMP Moorland in Doncasterwith a pair of tweezers which had been sharpened and bound with tape to create a makeshift knife.

Do I need to comment any more on this? I think not.

Thanks to the BBC for the details.

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oh good lord – so to speak

Atheists in Australia are under cyber attack now, because thats the Christian thing to do. The websites of both the Atheist Foundation of Australia and the Global Atheist Convention were knocked offline in a major cyber attack yesterday afternoon.

More to be read in the Sydney Morning Herald….

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India and Albania are currently having a squabble over the remains of Mother Teresa – Nun, Nobel Laureate and perpetual Jan to Princess Diana’s Marcia.

Ok. EW!!!!

Lets face it. She’s been buried a while, so unless someone did a better job of embalming her than they did of Lenin, she is probably not it a particularly appealing state by now.

But its worse than just digging up a dead old lady*, because what this really comes down to is a squabble over tourism revenue. Follow me n this one.

Nun (now dead) did great things. Said dead Nun will turn 100 next August – well, it will be 100 years since she was born, but you know what I mean. She is likely to be made a saint, or canonised as they call it – which to be honest sounds to me like they will be shooting her out of a big gun. That can’t really be that respectful, or good for her. Even if she was alive it could be messy, but dead? Well lets just hope someone has some wet ones.

That aside, now Saint Said Dead Nun, will have a sea of god botherers coming to pray at her graveside, asking for her intervention with god in their ailments, problems, business ventures, gambling – you know, the usual thing people pray about. And here is where I feel the sandal hits the pavement.

Where you have pilgrims you have not only a bunch of people looking for answers outside themselves, rather than inside where the answers are much more likely to lie, you have retail opportunities.

I don’t recall anyone running forward arms outstretched to snatch the corpse of Said Dead Nun from India when there was just an expensive state funeral involved, but now there is an opportunity to sell tasteful things like Mother Teresa bobble heads, its all kicking off.

If Albania, who are making the fuss now, just want to honour Mother Teresa and pay respect to the things she did, where her dead bodies lies should not matter. Spend the money and the energy helping the poor, rather than having a diplomatic incident over it. Think about it for a second – what would SHE have wanted?

*are dead people still old?

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So now you REALLY have the opportunity to spie on your neighbours.

Internet Eyes lets you log onto the UK CCTV network and watch people – in case they are doing something wrong.

Oh Stop it!!

Gladys Kravitz, you have better things to do. If nothing else, figuring out what they are is a start.

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I love this country so bloody much. Only here could a self proclaimed transvestite suggest running for office and it be no big deal.

New Zealand of course has a transsexual politician, and the US had George Bush, who was something else entirely. But here in the UK, with its long tradition of men dressing up as women, its good to see that the nations leadership may be come just that little bit more representative.

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Did you know know that the French President, Nicholas Sarkozy is only 5′5″? And that’s in flats, apparently he wears shoes with a 2″ rise in them, getting him to a towering 5′7″.

At a recent photo opportunity at a factory in France, apparently the crowd was hand picked to ensure that none was taller than Le President.

On a related theme, M. Sarkozy was in a group photograph at the G8 Summit and in the full version of the picture can be seen standing on tippy toes.

Nothing wrong with short, Monsieur, if you accept it. Short guys can be tres chaud and a heap of fun.

See the drop bear for reference.

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Is it my imagination, was there no mention today of the September 11th Terrorist attacks? Or is it just that I don’t like in America anymore, that I missed it.

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