Say No No No !

Scotland is exhibiting suicidal tendencies, or at the very least, self mutilation and stubborn hubris. 

Sounds like banking…? actually far worse.

In a few days time the Scots will vote to remain a part of the Union or become an independence State. 

Polls indicate that the Yes vote is leading the charge.

Panic has consumed all of Westminster and excitement escalates throughout Edinburgh.

Alex Salmond the first minister of Scotland has put forward the idea that Scotland would be better off separate from the rest of the Union. 

With a outlook as foggy as the Mull of Kintyre, and with great skill, he has managed to bamboozle a delusional population.

However it does pain me to agree with David ‘Downton Abbey’ Cameron on this matter, but he and many other undesirables are perfectly correct in stating the obvious.

It would be a catastrophe for such an event to occur, and with so many unanswered questions to be hanging in the balance, only an act of a madman and crazed nationals could prevail.

So much dependency on oil and gas profits as a way of constant funding for a new Scotland is simply nonsense.

Even BP has cited that supply will eventually run out, hence a fracking desire throughout the country?

The banking community will leave for a more stable climate, including the Royal Bank of Scotland, the Euro and Sterling will not find a home in New Scotland.

Who pays for Scotland’s debt?  Mortgages will raise and the cost of borrowing will shoot up.

Will Alex Salmond declare that the Ruble will be the next currency? Or simply hand over military concerns to Putin?

Britain’s International standing will be diminished, and as a NATO partner will look increasingly ironic considering Russia’s continuing land grab.

New Scotland will have an uneasy admission to the EU, who would face similar European separatists. 

The age of voting has been reduced to 16, in a cynical ploy to inject pride to an unsuspecting youth.

And what desecration to one of the best graphic designs ever - The Union Jack !

News just in…Loch Ness has surfaced and is moving south…

So like the Drugs slogan "Just Say NO"

IPeep v IPrivacy

Breaking News! 

"Hollywood type people outraged at leaked selfie sex!!!!"

"Demand more digital privacy…"

Leading IT girl Jennifer Lawrence miffed at such a state of affairs calls for radical Jihad against the IVoyeur .

What more laws on privacy? From a Congress that rarely turns up, let alone talks to each other?

For now sadly that appears fanciful.

Celebrities are prime targets, especially women for such intrusion which is unpleasant at the very least, however this seems paradoxical for some Celebs who yearn for constant flash bulbs and dress and behave in a manner which is a megabyte away from full on fornication.

Can we site Miley Cyrus, Nicki Minaj, Madonna and even Prince?

Considering the choice of Smartphone’s these days, the  IPhone or Android can be a self inflicting Judge, Jury and Executioner - the Blackberry sales are too dismal for selfie sex.

Privacy is diminishing by the sound bite, megabyte whether we like it or not, and has been eroding at Mach 2 speed just like climate change and appears irreversible. 

It’s surprising to suggest that Google, Face book, Apple and all advertising companies are interested in your privacy. 

They want to know everything about you, even the manufacturer of sex toy you used in your Oscar winning mini screen epic.

Need I mention the NSA?

The smart phone is a potent weapon; the Cloud is not 100% safe – nothing is full proof, if you are happy with Cirque du Soleil salacious sex at warp speed, then don’t get your knickers in a twist if the world is invited to watch.

The ubiquity of the camera and devices to relay such events are working with you and against you.

There will be always trolls and undesirables willing to ruin your day - new means of technology just accelerate the misery. 

The brilliant Kate Bush just returned to the stage after a 35 year absence and requested her fans to watch the show rather than video it.

Perhaps photographing everything from breakfast to cats to copious copulation would be better served by committing them to memory.

Blurred Lines

It’s hard to know if one is in Iraq, Syria, Gaza or Ferguson these days, the images look alarmingly similar.

What is abundantly clear; since 911 America has adopted a combative stance in all streams of life.

CNN’s Wolf Blitzer has a show called the ‘Situation Room’, even his bloody name is threatening! (Although he looks like a senior citizen teddy bear)

The TV media on all sides are awash in exploding, swooping graphics that font large the words ‘Terror’ every second.

Embedded journalists look like members of SWAT teams, with the only distinguishably difference being the word ‘Press’.

Even some celebrities have entourages the size of football teams, and who are armed to the teeth.

This bunker type mentality creeps in like a thief and leaves us shell shocked, too numb to realize the change. 

A product of ‘Right to Bear’ arms gone haywire and cancerous killing cycle that is never allowed to end.

There are thousands of Ferguson's percolating all across America, a sorry lament to the neglect of failed cities that warrant more help than Baghdad, Damascus and Kabul.

American foreign policy worries more about foreign failed States (and Arms sales) than its own domestic States.

We care more, it seems for tribes and cultures that we can barley pronounce, than the mixed culture back home that is in dire need for harmony and respect.

How can America be the beacon of light when its own population is in ruins?

What example to the rest of the world can we set if we are drowning in social divide and cultural inequity?

The Pentagon military budget for tactical weaponry must be colossal, why not trade in those dollars to resurrect communities and provide jobs, a future and to help ourselves and others. 

Why can't we cross the blurred lines of distrust to the transparent lines of hope ?

Ten and 1/2 Pros of Scottish Independence

1. Susan Boyle denied British radio play.
 
2. Mel Gibson replaces the Queen as Head of State…. Oy Vey!!
 
3. Hatred of Maggie Thatcher intact.
 
4. No More RBS bailout.
 
5. Will become the Greece of the Northern Hemisphere.
 
6. Bay City Rollers Reunion confined to Scotland.
 
7. No more shit rugby players in the Lions.
 
8. Haggis stays in Scotland.
 
9. Donald Trump to build more golf courses.
 
10. Sean Connery forced to leave his house in the Bahamas.

1/2. Andy Murray back to his losing ways. 

Every Song is like Sunday, tuneless and grey

Something has to be done about Morrissey, yes that former puff pastry leader of the band The Smiths.

The world cannot stand idly by and let continue after nearly 30 years, any more sour sonic silliness from the man.

He is the purveyor of the perfect swindle, fooling bedroom Bedouins into a charlatan’s belief that you can write one song and rerecord it for an entire career.

How does one get away with the same tired melody, the same jangly guitar and vocal delivery that scorched every track since the early 80’s?

These crimes perpetrated against the pasty, spotty adolescents have done irreparable damage to the social order.

It’s tantamount to musical pedophilia.

Conventional wisdom states that Morrissey was a precursor to the Beiber, Cyrus and Nicki Minaj travesty, soliciting permission to bore on a grand scale.

Not content to torture us through the art of the song, now he invites us to another piss poor performance of spoken word pretense, backed by third division jazz.

Listening to the protestation of a Brazilian goalkeeper would be more desirable than listening to Mozzer.

The man from Madchester has relocated to LA, that cultural void so in keeping with everything he apparently railed against as a guru for the depressed.

It would not surprise me in the least, if he has a suite at the Mirage Las Vegas, and is in talks with Siegfried for a comeback. 

Misery loves company and both have a penchant for shirts open to the waist.

Caliphates in Western clothing

As the ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) brand gathers speed across Iraq and the Social Media, so does the speed of denial from the architects of a delusional vision. 

These caliphates in western clothing are too numerous for fingers and thumbs, but a premiership league table must include Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Powell, Bremer, Wolfowitz and Blair. Congress isn't far off either.

In a recent Wall Street journal piece, monster in Chief Dick Cheney stated that rarely has a U.S. President been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many.” 

Could this be in reference to his former boss Dubya ?

Let’s hope so for the sake of correctness and while American and allied men and women were losing their lives sold on a fake pretext, old Dickey was helping KBR bring in forty billion in profits, a Halliburton subsidiary.

And now signatures are multiplying for Tony Blair to be ousted from a diplomatic role in the Middle East. 

The special relationship between him and Bush has left the whole region in complete chaos.

With leaders like these, who needs radical Islam?

Saddam Hussein was quarantined in a box not going anywhere - yes a monster in a box, but like Marshal Tito in Yugoslavia he kept a tight lid on ethnic tensions.

In an imperfect world, it was the best solution.

Jo Biden, who has been sidelined as a laughing buffoon rightly called it.

"Iraq needs to be broken up into a federation if there is any chance of cohesion because we have just unleashed a colossal disaster."

The West doesn’t understand Islam and probably never will. 

Nouri al Maliki doesn't care about Sunni’s and as a result played the West into thinking a secular Iraq could exist. 

If the American trained Iraqi troops are unzipping their uniforms and fleeing and not fighting for their homeland, why on earth should the West care about their country?

There are no reasons for more flesh and treasure to be deployed, Americans in particular would rather have Detroit rebuilt and watch the World Cup than have anything to do this unsolvable region.

But by way of justification we could send the aforementioned leaders in a herd of Humvee's and let them see the wisdom of their ways.

Death Revisited

The recent blotched execution of Clayton Locket reignites not only the Death penalty debate but perhaps the method of termination.

Whether you agree or not with the death penalty in America or anywhere for that matter both have worthy arguments. 

However, I find it odd that here in America one can’t get a hold of a three drug cocktail to administer for the less perceived way of extinction.

In the past America has got its supplies from Europe which now has boycotted such drugs, and Pharma USA are less keen to be associated with States that carry the death penalty. 

Hmmm how uncomfortable.

While new drugs are being sought might we stage a comeback for the rifleman or woman?

As we know, it’s easier to obtain a handful of bullets than it is to secure a restaurant reservation. 

With that in mind wouldn’t it be more cost effective to hire a sniper, with one precise shot to blot out life?

Just think of the advantages; no doctor stumbling over Hippocratic Oath, bullets plentiful and cheap. 

Heck we could get an anxious ridden teenager to comply! (but no Selfie’s)

Ah the possibilities…