This 'un meks yer think a bit

[AlanHo]

Extract from the Dungeekin blogspot...............

When I put my son to bed at night, we have to search under the bed and in the cupboards to make sure there are no monsters, ghosties or bogeymen. He's afraid of what might be there - of what he can't see and can't find.

He tells me, "just because you can't see them doesn't mean they're not there. They're hiding".

Dungeekin Minor's fear has one advantage. He stays in his bed . . in other words, his fear of the monsters under the bed keep him exactly where I want him.

So the weekend brings us news that that colossus among statesmen, Gollum Brown, has castigated the Pakistani goverment and demanded that they 'take out' Osama Bin Laden.

A man once supported by us (that is, the US/UK 'special relationship'), who then turned against us and is now vilified as the world's most dangerous terrorist. A man who is never seen in person, but who periodically releases video recordings denouncing the West and all it stands for, and calling for root-and-branch change.A man who hates everything we stand for. A man who masterminds atrocities against our societies and who wishes us dead.

Sound familiar?

Osama Bin Laden is the bogeyman of Western government. He's the Keyser Soze of the terrorist fraternity, the Emmanuel Goldstein of the noughties.

This creature of the caves, the terror of Tora Bora, is the mythical fantastical monster that the Government use to keep us pliant. His spectre hovers over our daily lives. If we don't do what the Government says, Osama's gonna get us in our beds.

Osama Bin Laden drives the legislation that controls us. If we don't have ID cards, Osama will blow us up. If we don't have 42-days detention, Osama will unleash a 'dirty bomb'. If we don't have CCTV, Osama will slaughter us in our sleep.

If we don't send our troops to Afghanistan, Osama will unleash a jihad upon western shores, destroying the world as we know it. So we'd better have another billion or three in defence appropriations.

I ask you to consider Brown's demands, and then consider this...

If Osama is captured or killed, there is no need for an Afghan war of occupation. There's no need for ID cards, 42 days or any of the other legislation we currently suffer under. There would be no need for the massive diminution of Civil Liberties we have had and continue to experience.

Yet this legislation keeps us powerless, and subservient to Government. And this fear of Bogeyman Bin Goldstein keeps us looking outward at an external threat, while ignoring the pernicious creep of totaliarianism on our own shores.

Ask yourself this. Is Bin Laden more valuable to this Government dead....or alive and scary?

Because I think if Bin Laden didn't exist, then they'd have needed to create him.

[-pops-]

Toooooo real!

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So are we thinking that the twin towers job was not all it is claimed to be?

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So are we thinking that the twin towers job was not all it is claimed to be?

There are plenty who claim that is the case - with plausible explanations to go with it.

[catgate]

So are we thinking that the twin towers job was not all it is claimed to be?

There are plenty who claim that is the case - with plausible explanations to go with it.

The thing that has always struck me as a bit odd is the fact that an undestandable great fuss was made about those who perished in the towers, but very little, if anything, was heard about those who perished on the planes. They must have had relatives if they were real people.

[Gandalph]

There are a lot of 'conspiracy theories' surrounding the twin towers.

One of the so-called pilots was seen two weeks later in Florida. One of the firemen heard seven load explosions which seemed to come from the basement area of one of the towers. Quite a few wealthy business men took out large insurance policies on the towers just months before they were attacked. There are quite a lot more as well with a lot of 'if's' and 'buts' surrounding them.

[catgate]

I wonder if the scientists and engineers who explained how it was that the towers fell down (when it was said that it could not happen) are the same ones who are working on proving that the waters are rising and the world is going to melt, unless we all stop breaking wind and pay twice as much for every thing?

[Boris]

unless we all stop breaking wind

If the wind wasn't broken so much we could use it to power more wind turbines ? :D

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I have been thinking of a scheme for making my own electricity using methane as the fuel for a generator engine. My friend the dairy farmer up the road has over 70 cows, so there should be enough for us both there if the greenies are right.

I remember the cars and lorries diring the 39-45 war had "gas bags" mounted on top of them to hold town gas as a fuel, and so the cows could have frameworks fitted to then to carry a collection bag with a pipe leading into it.

The only problem I have found to be rather intractable is a system for filtering out the solids.

[rong]

If methane is lighter than air just put a spout slightly higher than the outlet, that way unless they cough while in relief it will drop and the gas will rise

[catgate]

If methane is lighter than air just put a spout slightly higher than the outlet, that way unless they cough while in relief it will drop and the gas will rise

Methane is less dense than both oxygen and nitrogen so it should rise, particularly if it is warm, so a gravitational separation is on the cards. The only problem now is the prevailing westerly breeze.

[AlanHo]

Get the farmer to train the cows to move across the field in an easterly direction.

[andsome]

Off topic now??? :D

[catgate]

That may be, but there is more thought going into it than goes into some posts topics.