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Bum.

Owen — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 21:22:00 +0000

Dead fish.
Not happy.
RIP Camilla

Bird Brain

Owen — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 08:14:00 +0000

So far it’s Owen 0 – Pigeon 1
I’m loosing a battle of wills with a pea-brain. Arrgh. Can’t persuade her to leave my balcony.

Update: I’d have preferred to solve this problem some other way than having her die on me, obviously exhausted or sick. Now I feel really bad.

Thieving scum.

Owen — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 09:25:00 +0000

They took her and threw her in a canal.
Words fail me, only emptyness remains.

More things

Owen — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 10:54:00 +0000

Another interesting quote about recent events.

“I actually don’t blame the cop, this is what happens when the so-called leaders of societies see tragedy as opportunity to increase their control. They have hyped up their cops, put weapons in their hands and taken off the leashes, of course this is what happens.

We have spent generations teaching ourselves that a police state is not a safe, secure or free place. A police state is a terrorist organisation. The totally unjustifiable killing of Jean Charles de Menezes is either a warning to us all, or just the first name in what will be a long roll.”
- A Networked World.

If we´re so much better then the terrorists..

Owen — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 12:55:00 +0000

…why are we shooting to kill?

“You would think the British police would be prepared, but they are panicking and seeing everyone as a suspect.
“If you are going to have a war on terror, you have got to use brains to fight it not just brute force.”
- a relative of Jean Charles de Menezes

So..

Owen — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 16:26:00 +0000

Farewell then, Hunter S Thompson
“I wouldn’t recommend sex, drugs, or insanity for everyone, but they’ve always worked for me.”
Says it all really

Death Lives!

Owen — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 23:21:00 +0000

Mort comes to the BBC

Sad News

Owen — Thu, 31 Jul 2003 14:18:00 +0000

My favorite Bike racer, Steve Hislop, is dead.

Do they understand?

Owen — Fri, 14 Feb 2003 15:39:00 +0000

Bush/Blair/Saddam/Rumsfeld, and the whole stinking lot of them. THIS IS NOT A GAME. Real people really die. Unfortunately it’s hardly ever the buggers that start it.

“Here is a bit of collateral damage: The first time I met Abu Ziad was in 1998. He had been the chief accountant with the British Iraqi Oil Company. Then, he had five children and lived in a big house by a bomb shelter. He recalled how during the Iran-Iraq war, when nearly 1 million young men died on each side, he would be at home in Baghdad, hearing the sounds of women wailing in the night for another lost son, husband or lover. He remembered thanking God that he had married late, and that his children were too young to be sent to fight. Then, three years after that war, President Saddam led them into another. At 2am on February 13 1991, two bombs hit the al-Amiriya bomb shelter near his home. The first was a drilling bomb that pierced the roof and cut open the central heating tank. Boiling water poured through the ceiling on to the women and children below, who were playing dominoes, watching Tom and Jerry videos dubbed into Arabic and eating kebabs.

“Only 15 minutes later, the second bomb exploded with such force that he never had the chance to identify the bodies of his wife and four of their five children: Zena, aged 14; Fuad, aged 12; Lena, aged seven; and Sadaad, aged six. “I saw a body being brought out, then I saw it was Zena’s, but they were piling them on top of each other and I couldn’t see if it was her. We weren’t allowed to go close.” Later that morning, Abu Ziad stood outside the shelter. He remembers noticing the ankles of the dead women and children. Their skin had been branded with the metal coils of red-hot mattress springs as they struggled to climb over the metal beds, and each other, to get out. The doors had been locked for security. Four hundred and six people, mostly women and children, died inside

Full story here. (Also linked in an entry below.)