{"id":3403,"date":"2010-07-05T02:40:53","date_gmt":"2010-07-05T01:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=3403"},"modified":"2010-07-05T11:25:27","modified_gmt":"2010-07-05T10:25:27","slug":"and-here-is-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=3403","title":{"rendered":"And here is the news…"},"content":{"rendered":"

(from the ‘Oh My God’ department of common sense)<\/em><\/p>\n

Professor <\/strong>Allyson Pollock, director of Edinburgh University’s Centre for International Public Health Policy has produced a paper<\/a> that has put forward the argument that scrums, in games of school rugby, should be banned.<\/p>\n

Can I just point out that if you take the scrum out of the game of rugby, what you have left is no longer a game of rugby?<\/p>\n

Can I also point out that the England Under 21 Rugby Team are going to get their collective arses wiped by even the Italians, if Professor Pillock<\/span> Pollock gets her way?<\/p>\n

Is this Health and Safety gone completely bonkers? Can our American cousins imagine a game of gridiron where the offence is not allowed to actually sack the quarterback?<\/p>\n

Meanwhile<\/strong>, in other news, the serial media-botherers<\/a>, Kate and Gerry McCann are going to meet the Home Secretary in a bid to get a new investigation in to the disappearance of their daughter.<\/p>\n

On one hand I would object to any more British public money being spent on this case – simply because the disappearance occurred in a foreign country; Portugal.<\/p>\n

However, on the other hand, I would like to see the McCanns get a new (British) investigation in to their daughter’s disappearance – but only if the investigation takes a long hard look at the abandonment of the McCann children by Kate and Gerry in the first place.<\/p>\n

Abandonment of any child is a criminal offence and these people have not yet been charged with the crime.<\/p>\n

So yes, let’s reopen the British investigation but let’s have the correct charges levied too – and the correct punishments because, by their own evidence, the McCanns abandoned all three of their children.<\/p>\n

Lee <\/strong>Siegel, an American literary critic, has declared the age of American fiction to be dead. Has he not read the CIA’s report to GW Bush on ‘Weapons of Mass Destruction’ in Iraq?<\/p>\n

Could anything underline the continued well-being of American fiction more than this pile of steaming horseshit<\/span> work of fictional art?<\/p>\n

Prime <\/strong>Minster Cameron has instructed Central Government departments to prepare for budget cuts of up to 40%. Yet strangely, we’re not hearing that the MP Expense Budget is to be cut by 40%.<\/p>\n

We’re also not hearing that the number of MPs will be cut by 40%.<\/p>\n

Hmmm…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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