OK, few comments on the news from this morning. Bit rant, bit comment. Some nice stuff, too.
First off – does anyone know what Eta stands for? I know it’s the 7th letter of the Greek alphabet, and they’re Basques and all. But why Eta? Just curious.
As for their actions this morning, though… OK, OK, they’ve not said it was them, but it was a terrorist attack in Madrid right before elections. Who else is it going to be? Last news report I read, there were 65 people dead. 65. That’s up to 65 families missing a member this morning, not to mention the wounded and I’m sure that toll will rise. And why?
You know, I still don’t know what Eta as a group stand for, and frankly I don’t give a ****. As far as I’m concerned I’d never listen to what’s said by a bunch of arseholes like that. Same for the IRA. Eta have been doing this since the 60’s. I think the IRA around the same length of time. I don’t think either has achieved anything by it aside from making people stand up more against them. Once you become hated and seen as a coward, people stop listening to you. I just wish these scum would learn that.
What government could now listen to their arguments? After all, that’s another 65 families who’d never vote for them if they backed down. Add that to the countless others over the past 40+ years and it makes the idea completely untenable.
Update: An hour later and the death toll is now reported at around 130.
Another update: just gone lunchtime and now 170+ dead and more then 600 injured.
Final update: almost the end of the day and we’re being told 190 dead and 1200 injured.
Nice stuff now.
George Michael. No, I’m not saying he’s nice in that way. I am, however, bloody impressed with his next career move. Essentially, the forthcoming album is his last commercial release.
And it gets better. He’s continuing to release music after that, sporadically, via a web site on a pay-per-download basis. In fact, to be more accurate, it’s a donate-per-download basis and from what I can gather it’s not even a mandatory donation.
Basically, George is bloody rich and has reached the stage that more people should hit: realising he doesn’t and never will need any more money. So he’s self-funding all future music, releasing it at his own pace and just asking for donations to his favoured charities in return.
A big… no a huge hand to him. I can only hope that others follow in his musical footsteps.
What can I say. It really makes you wonder how anyone could live with themselves, killing normal innocent men women and children. I cant even begin to say how much this sort of useless, idiotic, menalism upsets and boggles me. Make love not war…..then bake bread!