Lightning Strikes - In the Wrong Place

Today, the BBC has a short clip of lightning striking St Peter's Basilica in Rome.  Impressive.

I wonder am I being blasphemous in suggesting that God has got this one wrong?  The reason is that I think He might have done better to aim his thunderbolt at that fat yob in North Korea...

Until the next time.

Pope Resignation Shock

Pope has resigned!

OK


Until the next time

Another Outrage

I have ranted here before about those hideous con-tricks, the wind turbines which are supposed to provide us with renewable energy.

Well they do, but in minuscule amounts that do not at the furthest stretch of the imagination justify the outrageous cost - when subsidies are taken into account.

Today, the ever-bloody-stupid government has authorised the despoliation of an area of the Lincolnshire countryside (Heckington Fen) with 22 of the gross eyesores, over-riding vigorous local opposition.  The report in the Daily Telegraph encourages readers' comments.  One of the commentators has this evening, regularly updated us with the pathetic output of those over-priced monstrosities already in operation to the fury of many.  At 22:20 he reported that output was 0.07GW, that is less than 1% of their rated capacity. 

A scandal.

Meanwhile I take the  liberty of reproducing here the comments of another: "Fenbeagle":

7,168MW of installed capacity GB metered wind, now producing 74MW (0.2% of grid total)
...And so it is of national importance to trash Heckington Fen with 22 x 125 metre tall wind Follies rated at very aprox. 50MW......How much would this actually be producing now then, if 7,168 produces only 74?
...(No need to do the maths there is no wind at all over Heckington Fen.)

Once again an absolute bloody disgrace. Those responsible should be shot - well all right, put in the stocks for a good spell.

And more bad news: read this
The greedy bastards are rushing to grab the undeserved subsidies while they can...
  
Finally, here's a link to a useful site that shows what's going on in electricity generation in the UK; here you can see wind's pathetic contribution despite the 7+GW so-called installed capacity.

Until the next time. 

Twitter

Twitter has been 'hacked' apparently; I received an email advising me about a password change.  I enrolled in it ages ago and have hardly ever used it - I cannot see any use or reason for it unless one wants to overthrow the state, which I do not.  After all I am hardly likely to be interested in the comings and goings of Z-list celebrities  am I?

So once again, I don't giveashit!

Until the next time

"Halal" Shock

It is reported that "traces of pork DNA have been found in "Halal" prison meat.

Guess what?  I don't give a shit.

Until the next time.

The World Turned Upside-Down

About fifty years ago a pop-singer and guitarist, Joe Brown, enjoyed a minor success with a song that went (as I remember) something like this:

"Father's down the dog-track,

Mother's playing bingo,

Grandpa's swearing at the telly,

You should hear the lingo;

No-one seems to notice me,

Isn't it a sin?

What a crazy world we're living in."

Well Joe, I think it's a lot crazier now - this view prompted by the coverage on the BBC of the attempted robbery of a Ladbroke's betting shop by a fifty-year old habitual criminal who at the time of the attempt was wearing a gas-mask of second world war vintage and brandishing a pistol.  The would-be robber was tackled by some very brave customers and whilst under restraint, died.

In its earlier reports the BBC referred to a "tragedy"!!!  What tragedy please?  The death in flagrante so to speak, of a would-be armed robber is NOT a tragedy - it is never a tragedy.  Meanwhile in the article, the BBC informs us that the robber's family have said that there will be "no revenge" over the death; nice of them.

Bloody cheek.

The Late Alan Levers - Robber

Picture: BBC

It just remains for me to add the observation that it would have been a "tragedy" had the above person turned up not wearing his gas-mask...

Until the next time