The Patent Dragon's Zone of Soul Retraction

In Today's Episode... and Brave New World concludes as Mane-of-Night faces her "try-out", and gets Witchraven's opinion on her abilities - and for her efforts, Mane-of-Night learns that there's far much more to this "Brave New World" than she ever imagined.

Release Notes... And so, "Episode 1" reaches its end. Stay tuned for the next step on the road to WORLDS COLLIDE - the "clock" is ticking...

Meanwhile... I really struggle to achieve any degree of enthusiasm for anything on the news these days. There are, however, several issues that "grind my gears". Here's some "rant-bursts" on...

"Dole slavery": Oh, so all of a sudden, the unemployed aren't "lazy, feckless scroungers"? They're the latest victims of "teh ebil Torys", and somehow worthy of support, just to flip the bird to the Government?

The seething fury about bankers' bonuses: Okay, let's just scrap ALL businesses, and run them as ethical collectives with rotating "chair-persons" - then kiss what's left of the economy GOODBYE.

Aborting babies for being the wrong gender: Anyone who demands this is a murderer. Anyone who carries out such an abortion is a murderer. Plain and simple.

Syria: Pick a recent conflict. Watch the seething rage as the UK gets involved. Now see Syria. We're staying out of it... and watch the seething rage again. Why don't the hippy peaceniks go there and use their "passive resistance"? I'll tell you - they won't because holding hands and singing "All You Need Is Love" won't stop a fucking tank.

And I'm done.

Just watch the panic. It's sad, isn't it? No two news reports, and no two experts have the same things to say about the situation at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan - oh, sorry, that's not strictly true; the "green" brigade are universally delighted...

( And the rant begins - includes 'adult concepts' )

End rant transmission...

I'm glad I've done a big chunk of my Christmas shopping already, because Nice Mister Hacker has decided to "fight for our freedoms" by trying to crash the credit card companies and Paypal. In the run-up to Christmas. Yeah, that'll really build support for A Certain Website, won't it?

( Rant continues...! )

Meanwhile, the Dole Pogrom continues as some clever dick suggests that "the unemployed should get out and shovel snow", and Hacker Nation do absolutely BUGGER ALL about a real injustice. Hey, why should they when they can still embarrass America some more...

End rant.

The Student Fees "Protest"... "Demo-lition". Speaks volumes, doesn't it? That's the banner a good deal of these "students" were marching under when they stormed into Conservative Party HQ at Millbank yesterday.

Oh, so it was all down to "anarchists", was it? The University Anarchists Society, perhaps? Let's be honest; this was never going to be a peaceful, civilised protest, and the "rent-a-mob" will be happy for the publicity, as the head of the Students' Union condemns them, then goes home, cracks open a bottle of "Bolly", and toasts them for nearly killing a police officer by throwing a fire extinguisher off the roof of the building.

"Why didn't the police do something?" What, and get pillioried AGAIN 'cause some hippy got a bump on the head, and a police officer happened to be within ten feet of them? If I was working in that building, I'd probably sue both the NUS and the police for the respective action/inaction... and don't anyone give me that "heavy-handed policing" bullsh8 - how heavy-handed can fifteen police officers be when they're pinned against a building by twenty thousand baying "students"?

Don't think for one moment that we've seen the last of this kind of action, 'cause I get the feeling the JobCentres will be next (and that's NOT an incitement to criminal action, MI5 - it's an entirely valid observation)...

( WARNING - rant bomb, enhanced with 'colourful language', ahead! )

Ah, screw all this - I'm starting to hear the Red Lantern oath inside my head...

With blood and rage of crimson red,
Ripped from a corpse so freshly dead,
Together with our hellish hate,
We'll burn you all--That is your fate!

—Atrocitus, Green Lantern (vol. 4) #32 (June 2008)

And finally, this: Mr Nick Clegg, I voted for the Liberal Democrats in May on the basis of what appeared to be an enlightened and positive policy on the unemployment situation - a policy you have ditched for a sniff at power. I will not vote for your gang of scum again.

Rant channel closed.

My, how convenient: BBC's "The Big Questions" - a religion-oriented discussion programme on Sunday mornings covering various topical matters has a technical outage halfway through, cutting the live show short. Their first, and most interrupted subject? The Cumbria shootings, and the "need" for tightening up the gun laws in the UK. Most vocal on the show, a woman almost rabid in her desire to see all guns banned - or was that "all men emasculated"?

There was no logic to her "cause", just the good old "bulldozer to drive in a single nail" approach, which conveniently ignores, COMPLETELY, a fundamental issue that is NEVER addressed. If this was a woman shooting twelve people dead, we'd be all over her mental state, the pressures of society, finance... all that jazz. But the perpetrator was A MAN, and that is, apparently, all we need to know - man + gun = slaughter. According to her and her allies, that's how simnple it is.

Bollocks.

I refer readers back to my previous article - four days on, and still the matter of men's mental issues and "unmetabolised anger" has not been addressed. You don't need a "Flash Forward" to know such an incident will happen again - it's guaranteed as long as we treat men as mindless automatons, switched to "Kill" mode the moment a gun is placed in their hands. Any time a man shows any emotion - just remember several disappointed soccer players at recent competitions - they're lampooned, told to "get a grip" and "stop being such a girl"...

If the World Cup is going to be good for anything, it'll be to remind us that that's just how it is. England will fail, the players will cry, and they will be condemned for it. It will happen, but the denial of men's emotions has to stop. Save men from despair, you save lives by averting "massacres" - all it takes is a listening ear, and the support of someone else who cares.

It's not too late to stop the next outrage, and we can't do that if we waste any more time trying to "ban all guns". Hungerford, Dunblane... and still teenagers are shooting each other every weekend. According to the "anti-gun nuts", those crimes should already be impossible, because of the laws already in place.

Guess again, ladies.

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Meanwhile... It's time. In a couple of days, i-Resist 2010 will be set in motion, should we receive no adequate response from the Council about the lack of residents' consultation about the CLAN Gathering. An e-mail is being prepared, I will be working on flyers this week - very soon, everyone in the neighbourhood will know about what's coming at the end of July. And there will be protests...

This Just In... IRON MAN 2 booked! That's Friday evening sorted, then...

Get ready to tick a box for Mission 101, Task 98!

Development News... Yes! That's Chapter 3 done for MoN-204 "Mane-of-Night And The Day At The Races" at last. Netbook issues haven't helped, but a concerted effort has nailed down the "Race" itself; the "Main Event" that isn't the whole story. No "end of the world" stuff this time, so enjoy this more laid-back adventure - featuring a bit of long overdue partying - while it lasts...

Meanwhile... I am starting to assemble a "Wish List" of sorts - external hard drive, flat-screen monitor(s), that sort of thing... now, let's see - sensible-heeled boots...

In The News... A prospective Tory MP gets canned for say that homosexuality "isn't normal". Almost everything humans do "isn't normal" - talking in real time to someone on the other side of the world, travelling long distances without intense exertion of the leg muscles, flying, inhaling poisonous smoke for fun - shall I go on? "Not normal" doesn't mean "wrong" - show me one person who is "normal"!

The last thing anyone needs is politicial correctness closing off legitimate channels for intelligent discussion. Gods, no.

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Absolutely the LAST thing this country needs is for the General Election to be decided by the newspapers whining on about some Lord or other who may or may not be entirely whiter-than-white. One side's just as bad as the other - the one engaged in the sh8-flinging just happens to be The Government.

The economy is already on life-support, and the threat of a hung Parliament is making things even worse. I shudder to think what we'll wake up to as the dawn breaks after Polling Day. Britain looks weak, the Argentinians take another shot at the Falklands (and don't say THEY aren't kicking up a storm because of the oil), our armed forces are overstretched to breaking point...

I feel sick.

/rant

Meanwhile... I'll be typing for the rest of the evening, with a view to getting the final chapter of TDD-605 "She Returns" finished (highly likely), and maybe even posted (a little less likely). Stay tuned for the next progress report!

In Today's Episode... All the pieces are at last in place - including a piece no-one could have predicted - and battle is finally joined...

Development News... There isn't any. Today just went straight down the plughole, pretty much before it really got going. Must find a way out of this kinda thing...

Meanwhile... Oh, this is freakin' rich: Secularism 'means fall in births' - the chief rabbi in the UK says that Europe is "dying" because secular "attacks" on religion by "neo-Darwinism" somehow equate to a reduction in the birth rate...

...and this is bad how, might I ask? The planet is already overpopulated, and that is what's killing the planet, as all those excess humans want food, shelter and energy - and what is religion doing about that? Encouraging people to have MORE children so that the High Priests have all the cannon fodder they need for their next "god"-inspired round of genocide. Oh, and plenty of people to "pray" for the souls of the murdered.

Ideally, the truly enlightened among us could climb aboard our fleet of space-ships, and settle on another world, a world based on civilised reason, whilst the religious nutters battle each other to extinction on the slowly charring remains of our former homeworld. Yeah, like the cockroaches are going to appreciate the heaps of curiously unnaturally-shaped boulders that used to be your holy places...

Here endeth the rant.

In Other News... Oh great - here come the hippunks, looking for another scrap with the police thinly disguised as a "legitimate protest" against the planet-murdering G20... and this time, they're in my home town. I'll just stay at home, if you don't mind, and amuse myself with the news coverage.

Didn't get a lie-in today either, when I wanted and needed it most. Okay, now I'm pissed. I wanted to stand back from this issue, but now you'll get the fullness of my outrage...

The BNP Show... If anything is going to drive people into the waiting arms of the "racist, fascist" British National Party (and that's the LAST time I refer to them by name here), I can name three things...

1) A bunch of unwashed Lefty students trying to tell me I'm too stupid to make up my own mind, as seen outside BBC TV Centre on Thursday night. Please find a dictionary, and look up the definition of the word "fascism". Can't be bothered? Well, here it is (from dictionary.com)...

fascism (noun)

"a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism."

May I draw your attention to the part about "forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism"? Five hundred aggressive protestors certainly sound like "force" to me!

2) An orchestrated attack on a single individual, masquerading as a serious TV discussion programme - any attempt to make the programme seem "legitimate" appeared to have been tacked on as an afterthough, and one of the most important issues of the day, the postal workers strike, was not even mentioned!

3) A black AMERICAN intellectual doing her very best to lay out her case as a "British Denyer", namely one Bonnie Greer, Deputy Chairman of The BRITISH Museum (Question Time, BBC 1, Thursday 22nd October 2009, starting at time index 39:15 onwards)! For a self-acclaimed historian, she has a yawning gap in her knowledge, namely the meaning of the word "indigenous" - look, here it is...

indigenous (adjective)

"originating in and characteristic of a particular region or country; native (often fol. by to): the plants indigenous to Canada; the indigenous peoples of southern Africa. "

By this definition, I, having been born in Britain, am actually indigenously British; actually indigenously Scottish, even though my parents were both born in England. If this had been "N.G." and his party, denying The Holocaust, or anyone else denigrating (oh, am I still allowed to say that word?)... say black people, the outrage would have been mind-blowing - hold on a minute, let's take a look at yet another dictionary definition:

racism (noun)

"a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human races determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to rule others.. "

hmmmm, no mention at all of racism being purely white against black - but Greer quite gleefully tried to dismiss the British as a people. Clearly, her definition of a "person" is quite narrow, given that she discounted Neandrethals as people too.

If British people don't actually EXIST, Ms. Greer, then neither can our Museum, and you're out of a fucking job! As far as I'm concerned, she's a racist, and therefore a fucking hypocrite. I do NOT want your "revisionist anthropology" contaminating our Museum.

Guess that's me on the Anti-Fascist League death-list now, all because of that. Hey, bring it on.

Message ends.

In Today's Episode... Ravani tries to unravel the mystery of the "shard-bearer" in the latest chapter of "Songs In The Key Of Fate". Also, learn some interesting facts about Mystalorn...

Release Notes... Delayed a little more than anticipated. See below.

Development News... I was about to say that there isn't any (development news), but I did get a couple of paragraphs MoN-203 "Mane-of-Night And The Wayward Child" typed up from notes, and followed up on those. Beyond that... well, I was pretty pissed off about the bullshit the Yanks are talking about us and the NHS...

Now, I don't give a flying sh8 if the Yanks come bottom in every meaningful survey of worldwide health-care, and they gleefully use their oh-so-wonderful "health insurance" to tax their poor out of all treatment in the name of Deep South eugenics, but when their right wing start making shit up about us and our health-care system, they can just go fuck themselves. I've seen as much of "FOX News" as I can possibly stomach, and by that I mean the slander (libel, whatever) that suggests the NHS is a breeding ground for terrorism, because of all the "foreign doctors".

The NHS isn't perfect - right now, this family knows that all too well, and I've had my share of negative experiences - but it's substantially preferable to the Yanks' "system". Yes, I would much rather trust my life and health to an "embryonic Jihadi" than a profit-driven Redneck, pissed off that he's now has to salute a black President...

Ah, fuck all this. I hope the electorate who voted that Britain-hating bastard in the European Parliament now call for him to be removed for daring to represent them.

And... some good news. The CLAN Backlash continues, as my response to last week's "reply" goes to print. Linkage as soon as the letter goes online...