There can’t be anything more demoralising than losing your leader. In a military sense one leader has all the armies hope’s resting on him. Once he is down you’ve pretty much got an aimless rabble. Remember that scene in El Cid where the hero’s corpse is put on a horse to rally the troops? They knew the importance of visibility. Or Easter?

Perhaps, just perhaps this war is already won and we don’t know it. To have a street fight everybody has to be in the street, that includes both sides. OK we are stuck in the streets but so are you… who’s nerve is going to hold? Now would be a good time to dangle morsels of what comes with the coalition in front of the Iraqi’s. Peace and quiet would be a good one.

12 hours on 12 hours off? Im too old for that now =)

Piff is OK. He sent a letter saying he is not coming out because “it is too noisy out there.”

On a personal note what you read is me, complete with flaws. But where are the hailstones I was expecting? Aren’t they reserved for wars? Or are they not needed heehee.

Rosie

Ha ha ha… just when I thought everybody else had a problem with the new superbug flu it turns up on my doorstep.. serves me right for pontificating… Rosie.

Due to the fact that people (2) have been asking after Piff the Hamster I have to say that he is very much alive… Its true that he has not been seen for a while (last night) and it is also true to say that currently my parents are more concerned for him than they are for me (past history). However I expect his information officer (me) to make a statement shortly….R.

News & views from the Sintranet.

Don’t take my name in vain

Anti-war protesters vandalise memorial

Fuck Peace

A-Team theme unlocks repressed sodomy memory

I cant scuba.

So we are still running to the First World War pattern, complete with killer virus now. Now that’s something we didn’t plan for. We spend all our time worried about what “they” will do and in the end it’s something very different yet just as deadly.

I didn’t do all that well in Biology but I do know these viruses go for the old, the infants and the weak. But perhaps ther is another class it will go for; all those weakened by years of stress, poor diet and no exercise. All the molly-coddled, air-conditioned sweatless people who have already taken every antibiotic known to man. Anybody in the first world really.

Rosie.

Shall I have a stab at the mildly prophetic? OK, there is some sort of intervention in the war coming up. Now whether that’s a person, a nation or a political group I dont know, but they are going to try to stop the war in Iraq. It might just be a guy with a gun but something is up….