Spare minutes

[cybermule]

1. YOUR PORN STAR NAME
(your middle name, street you grew up on)
Jean Bridge

2. YOUR MOVIE STAR NAME
(grandfather/mother on mother's side first name, favorite snack)
Jean Crisp

3. YOUR FASHION DESIGNER NAME
(first word you see on your left, favorite restaurant)
Stroud Budokan

4. YOUR "FLY GIRL/GUY" NAME
(first initial of first name, first three letters of your last name)
Hwoo

5. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME
(favorite animal, name of high school)
Donkey Stroud

6. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME
(middle name, city where you were born)
Jean Stroud (noticing a theme here...?)

7. YOUR OPPOSITE SEX NAME
(name of sibling/parent [opposite sex], cell phone company you use):
Jake Orange

8. YOUR STAR WARS NAME
(first 3 letters of your last name, last 3 letters of mother's maiden name, first 3 letters of your pet's name)
Wooceyame



In news, I had a good cry last night, and finally seem to be cheering up. Parrots have colonised Surrey, and Tony Blair seems to be disappearing up his long dark tunnel. I rarely comment on anything political, as I'm of the opinion that politics are about doing rather than discussing, but what's he on here?

He got beaten. MPs, in general disagreed with him. That's democracy, so quit bitching like a little whiny schoolkid.

I'm not really going to comment on whether or not they're out of touch with the public. My opinion is that the public is divided on this issue; to draw two extremes, some want everyone brown kicked out of the country, some people want everyone who ever remotely agreed with anything Bush ever said or did kicked out of the country.

I couldn't even guess the proportions, and I personally sit somewhere between the two, more towards the second. And I don't like hysterical knee-jerk reactions. Maybe the new anti-terror law isn't such a thing, but there's no harm in taking a bit of time to check that it's not, and to justify what we're about to do.

Maybe if we'd done that a few years ago, history might not have been different, but at least it would have been justifiable that it's the same.

Like I said, I don't know much about politics. But I do know parrots are forming viable colonies in Surrey, and that makes me happy.

Comments

[apel.livejournal.com]

Everybody's talking about how the terror bill didn't pass but they did increase the time the police can hold you without a charge up to 28 days. That's almost a month that some poor schmuck who happens to have the wrong name can spend locked up and traumatised. 28 is better than 90 but it's still a long time.

[zleetle.livejournal.com]

Jean Crisp - I like it! I wish we called potato chips crisps... My movie star name was terrible - Hermonie Hummus - thats the name of the socially inept girl in cotillian class in 1952... ugh! :)

[cybermule.livejournal.com]

Crisps are great. Although ruinous to my figure :P What socially inept girl where?

[cybermule.livejournal.com]

I know - an OK idea if everything goes right, but a terrible waste of a month in jail for some bloke that got arrested for wearing a turban in the wrong place at the wrong time. And yeah, deliberate mistake ;) People just worry me in their stupidity, and I'm not sure the stupid, hysterical and prejudiced should necessarily wield more power.

[weemadharold.livejournal.com]

Although not a man I respect or agree with in many ways, on this issue I think Mr Winston Churchill was correct:

"The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgement of his peers, is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whther Nazi or Communist."

[unsane1.livejournal.com]

WTF? 28 days? Ludicrous.