Living Without Religion

I found this on Joe. My. God.

Spring Cleaning

Good service is so hard to find, even in SecondLife.

In the hopes of forcing an early spring I have started spring cleaning my huge home on Southern Charm, so here you see me working up a sweat on my hands and knees scrubbing the floors.

Isn't there anyone in SecondLife looking for a position as a house slave? Please send me your application a.s.a.p.

All applications are welcome! No prior experience needed as long as you are willing to work hard and all hours! We are talking 24/7/365 here.

No sex is involved, your service to me, is reward enough for you, lowlife! If you need it I may call you dirty names once in a while, but only at my own leisure.

I Remember When I Heard It

I am told every person alive in the world remembers when and where they got the news when John F. Kennedy, the President of the United States, was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, on November 22^nd 1963. 

I wasn’t alive then, but I do remember when and where I heard the news that the Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme had been killed. It was the first murder of it´s kind in Swedish modern history, of course I remember it still.

Olof Palme (January 30^th 1927 – February 28^th 1986) was a Swedish politician. Palme was the leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1969 until his assassination in 1986. He was also the Prime Minister of Sweden twice during this period, heading a Privy Council Government from 1969 to 1976 and a cabinet government from 1982 until his death. 

A police truth says that a criminal assault by unknown perpetrators must be resolved almost immediately after the crime otherwise it will become very difficult.  

Hans Holmer, then head of the Stockholm police, immediately usurped the leadership of the investigation from the prosecutors. This crippled the investigation for more than two years and also to a great extent politicized the investigation. Once the investigation started to seem like a total waste of time it also led to paralyzing fights between Mr. Holmer and the responsible prosecutors.

Mr Holmér had a predetermined idea of where the murder should be found. It had to be a political conspiracy, it just had to be that and most likely – in his mind - there was a Kurdish angle; Palme could never ever have been killed by someone so mundane as a Swedish alcoholic and drug abuser.

While Holmér directed the searchlights towards the Kurdish PKK it delayed the examination of those who moved around the murder scene at the time of the killing. 

The investigators last real chance to get someone convicted for the Palme murder came in the trials of Christer Pettersson. The evidence was totally spoiled by a witness confrontation where the only good eyewitness the widow Mrs. Lisbet Palme in advance was told – quite possibly by Hans Holmér himself he always was good at chatting - that the suspect was an alcoholic. That led to her pointing out Pettersson as the man that killed her husband saying "Well, it is easy to see who is the alcoholic." This of course brought her testimony into doubt, no matter how she tried to repair the damage afterwards.

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The statute of limitations for murder used to be 25 years in Sweden, it was changed due to this botched up investigation so that the search could continue. Christer Pettersson is dead also.

Now I don´t believe that anyone will ever be tried and convicted for Palme´s murder.

Oh where and when I heard the news? It was when my mother woke me up on Saturday morning March 1, saying "Its time to get up, (Bock). Palme was killed last night." She sounded afraid and I saw tears in her eyes, even my father seemed very worried.

We lost a bit of our innocence that night, all Swedes living at that time did.

International RSI Awareness Day

This is a day set aside each year to focus attention on repetitive strain injuries (RSI). 

Held on the last day of February, it is the only "non-repetitive" day on the calendar and is officially observed on February 29th (in non-leap years, RSI Awareness Day is observed on February 28th.) 

On this day, workers, health and safety professionals, health care practitioners and others take the opportunity to help raise awareness about RSIs and the need for action aimed at prevention, rehabilitation and compensation.

RSI is an umbrella term to describe a family of painful disorders affecting tendons, muscles, nerves and joints in the neck, upper and lower back, chest, shoulders, arms and hands. These disorders can be caused by work activities that are frequent and repetitive, or activities with awkward postures. WMSDs are a serious occupational health concern across the world and are recognized as leading causes of significant human suffering, loss of productivity, and economic burdens on society. 

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It is good for us who spend a big part of our lives connected to the computer to know our aching hands, arms, necks, shoulders and backs have a day, isn't it?

Shameless Michèle Forced to Resign

The French Foreign Minister Michèle Alliot-Marie was forced to resign today.  

Alliot-Marie and her family's connections with the former Tunisian regime under the now deposed president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's were her downfall. 

In her request for resignation to President Nicolas Sarkozy, Alliot-Marie stated that she is not at fault and blamed the media for spreading half-lies against her.

Her sensational offer to send French riot police to Tunisia to help the hated leader crush the rebellion was not well received. She also caused excitement by spending the holiday in Tunisia in the midst of the revolt and to be flown in a jet belonging to a businessman linked to Ben Ali. 

"When I'm on holiday, I am not foreign minister." she amazingly enough countered. 
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I am sometimes astounded by how politically insensitive a politician really can be. It is good to see that there in fact is a limit to their foolishness - well sometimes.

Go away and rot somewhere, Michèle! You brought this on yourself by your own stupid words and actions. Do not for a moment dare blame anyone else for this, you shameless woman!

The Bock is Back

I´m back in civilization again and ready to take on the world.

Did anything happen that needs my attention?

Mahjong Weekend

On Saturday I am playing mahjong with friends in real life. We usually start early in the evening and end late in the night. I usually enjoy it, but at the time being I am tired and confused so I am not at all sure of how it will go.

Still I´ll go through the motions and keep a stiff upper lip.

See you all on Sunday!