"I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world". - Richard Dawkins.

Yay!! So Rage Against The Machine beat Simon Cowell's fuckwaful X Factor single to number one! Power to the people!! What a wonderful country. It feels like the start of some kind of fightback against manufactured pop. I mean the four finalists actually record the single then the winner releases it. How fake can you get?

Punk didn't happen like that. Or grunge. Or hip-hop. Or Madchester. Any significant musical movement in history was not created by a TV show. They may have given it airtime but the scene itself was years in the making, years of little money but great enthusiasm for what they were doing.

This year has been a good one for internet campaigning, who can forget the summer's 'We Love the NHS' spectacular when the whole nation erupted in support of our health service in the face of right-wing lies and provocation? The power of the web and networking sites is coming into its own as a force for good and as a way for the majority to be heard.

RATM's stunning victory has proved once and for all that though you may have a ratings-winner on the TV, when people have had enough they have had enough. Even people who hated the song still downloaded it because they were sick of the Cowell dominance of the charts. I'd like to see more of this the next time one of his pop gonks tries to turn the charts into a cakewalk. But until then lets revel in the moment!

Peace be upon you,

Sir_Red_Joe.

i'm home for christmas yay. i have lots of work to do :/
and i have to meet faith at the train station at 14.35 and i'm not even ready yet. ahhh.
This is my last post :D i hope all who have read my journal have a good christmas and rest of forever, i certainly will try my hardest to! Livejournal is cool man, i just don't think i will be able to make regular updates or keep updated so hence i am :/ ... giving up. on a less stupid note, i look forward to a point when i have the internet and a laptop at easier reach so i could maybe start a new journal or maybe try and restore this one?

bye for now :D :D :D

"But I believe we have a higher level of mentality within us, but we have to use the power in the right way". - Tina Turner.

I have something in common with Amanda Knox's family. I too am outraged at the length of time she'll spend behind bars. Only difference is I think it should be life imprisonment. I can't understand the attitude of her family, what part of 'guilty as charged' don't they understand?

Quite apart from the DNA evidence, she confessed to the murder. Is this the action of an innocent bystander? The fact that she retracted the admission later shows her to be a liar too.

Surely no politician is stupid enough to be suckered into her family's warped claims that the verdict was anti-American when the fact of the matter is that of the other two sickos convicted of this most heinous crime, one was Italian and the other African? This has 'PR disaster' written all over it and should be left well alone by those in power. And damning the entire Italian legal system just makes you look xenophobic.

Talking of xenophobia, apparently among the 'hundreds' of letters of support they've got the only nasty one was from Britain. Insulting the nation of your daughter's victim. Thats a new one on me. But it just shows the twisted logic by which these people live. What I think is lost here is Meredith Kercher's family's feelings. There are ways to go about appealing a conviction and ways not to. Going on fucking CNN is a way not to.

At least they still HAVE a daughter. A cold, calculating, evil and murderous daughter but a daughter nonetheless. They want to think about others who haven't before they go blathering all over TV about how the world is against them.

Peace be upon you,

Sir_Red_Joe.

I'd much rather just go forward in time a-la Back to the Future really. Plus I don't think that cryogenics would ever be available on the NHS!