I'm Out Of Here

Boardgames? Check! Books? Check! Soldiers to paint? Check! GameBoys? Check! Clothes? Oh yes; clothes. Now where are they?

Yes, I'm off on my Summer hols for the next couple of weeks so unless Catherine has packed a surprise laptop or Anglesey is well endowed with internet cafes there will be no updates here for a while.

Move along now; nothing to see here.

Fun! Fun?

This morning I was looking at some CD storage racks we have in the office when the list of features on the box caught my eye:

"Unique spring ejection allows for fun and easy access to CDs/DVDs with the touch of a finger"

What this means is that you press the CD  you want and give a slight upward flick and it lurches  out of the rack. Since it only comes out a fraction of an inch, you can only grip it if you have small fingers or big tweezers.

How is this 'fun'? 'Easy' yes. I can see where they get 'easy' from. But how is it 'fun'? Are the staff at Fellowes, the company that makes the things, so starved of entertainment that they find flicking CDs out of the rack fun? 'Fun' would be if the CD sprung out and shot across the room. A simple trip to get an piece of software could turn into a mission to take out your least favourite manager (and, let's face it, we all have one). You could have competitions to see how far 'Norton Antvirus' can be catapulted. It could be an Olympic event. But a feeble 1/8" eject is hardly the kind of thing to make you smile or give you an burst of adrenalin, both things one would ordinarily associate with the word fun.

(As an aside, my Dad's old 1970s stereo had big silver push buttons to select various functions. More than one of these was loose and they were all on powerful springs. If you flicked them just right when you used them they would shoot across the room in a very satisfying way.)

So come on Fellowes. What is it about your CD ejection experience that I am missing? Where's the fun?

And another thing. Fun Size Mars Bars. What's fun about a Mars Bar the size of your little finger (although not mine, as I have small fingers)? To be fun a Mars Bar needs to be a good six inches long. And you can take that any way you want :-)*

*You can take that any way you want as well ...

Taking The Piss

This item quite put me off my coffee:

US Army Food

Is anyone else reminded of that Blackadder episode where he goes off on a voyage of exploration?

Watching The Aeroplanes

This afternoon I have mostly been watching the F18, F14, B1 and F117. And configuring a Unix server. Guess which was more entertaining?

Tomorrow we have the promise of the Red Arrows and a B52 bomber. It's sad, I know, but I'm quite enjoying all this.

I Am A Child Abuser
 
Yes, it's official - a Home Office minister has said so. Now I know that some would regard the fact that I smack my children as abuse or even consider as abuse the time I told my daughter that if she had a guinea pig and didn't feed and look after it I would fatten it up and make her eat it.  On the whole, though, I think I'm a pretty normal, possibly lenient, and certainly liberal parent. However MP Paul Goggins (self-proclaimed inspiration for the post-mistress in Postman Pat) today told the BBC that:
 
"Every image of a child that appears on the internet is an image of a child that's abused."
 
Visit this page to see our children being abused:
 
Abused Children
 
It's a fair cop, guv.
 
Hey, you don't think it's possible that, in making such a stupid sweeping generalisation, that Paul Goggins is talking out of his arse?
 

Currys - Always Cutting Service
 
Yesterday we had a digital camera purchase to make and headed for our local Currys superstore. Spare us the comments. Yes, we could get it cheaper from Cameras-R-Us online or some other retailer, but we were in Staines, Currys was there and in we went.
 
So we got to the camera counter. Lots of cameras. No staff. We stood there. We lookied like people who wanted service and were willing to spend money. We pointed at various cameras we were interested in. No member of staff appeared. We stood by the counter and waited. We stood in such a way that the man on the customer service desk could see us, as could one of the ladies on the tills. And still no member of staff came to see us. After ten minutes Catherine decided that perhaps we were taking 'making a point' too far, and that me shouting 'SHOP!' very loudly was less than helpful. So she set of in search of someone. Five minutes passed. Back she came. Someone would be with us shortly. Five more minutes passed. And, wonder of wonders, a member of staff appeared.
 
Now I have to say that once we got someone they were very helpful, even to the extent that when it was obvious that they hadn't got the sort of thing we were looking for they suggested a specialist camera retailer down the road. Very nice of them. But perhaps the chain she works for could spend less money on bloody Linda Barker and more on employing staff.
 

For Darth Phil
 
Your personal heaven. Catherine's personal hell:
 
All Rush Radio
 
Enjoy.
 

The Big Birthday Barbecue
 
It was obvious to us as the day arrived that we had possibly attempted something a little ambitious. It's the first time we had really organised anything like that - 40 or so guests for, potentially, a whole day - and the main lesson we learned was to not do it again. That's not to say we didn't enjoy it, and we hope that those who came enjoyed it too. But we are exhausted. We had spent a lot of the previous week tidying up and getting various things ready, aside from our normal 'work commitments'. Then on the day itself we were up early and preparing food and drink from 7:00am. Things weren't helped by having to arrange for an engineer to come and fix our boiler (see below - he failed and may be comimg back tomorrow) and having to ferry Maya to and from dancing lessons and rehearsals in the middle of the party.
 
We collapsed into bed about five minutes after the last guests left.
 
Now we have a busy day of tidying up to do, as well as dealing with all of the food and drink that wasn't consumed. Anyone want three-dozen burger buns?
 
If anyone who came is interested (or anyone who didn't come) here is the recipe for the non-alcoholic fruit punch we served:
 
Non-Alcoholic Punch
 
I was pleased to see that our emergency pasta sald went down well too. Tesco failed to deliver the pre-made ones we ordered, so I was forced to improvise at the last minute with what we had in our cupboards and jars of preserved vegetables from the deli around the corner. We don't have any pasta left in the house now, mind you - the children aren't going to like that at all.
 
For our next trick, a sophisticated dinner-party, perhaps :-)
 

Sod!
 
Tomorrow is our big barbecue. During the course of the afternoon and evening close on 40 people will pass through our door. Tomrrow morning will be a frenzy of tidying up and preparing food.
 
So the last thing we need today is for our hot water boiler to pack in. And, sure enough, the last thing that has happened today is that our hot water boiler has packed in. The number '06' is flashing on the display, accompanied by an insistent and aggressive looking red light. I have no idea what it means, aside from Your Boiler is Broken.
 
An engineer will call us tomorrow to arrange a visit. I guess we'll have to lob another sausage on the barby for him.
 

Five Questions Meme
 
I got this from Gemmak's site.
 
If you want to play too, here are the rules:
1. Leave a comment, saying you want to be interviewed.
2. I will respond; I'll ask you five questions (Not necessarily the same ones as below).
3. You'll update your website with my five questions, and your five answers.
4. You'll include this explanation.
5. You'll ask other people five questions when they want to be interviewed.
 
Here are the 5 questions Gemma asked me and my answers:
 
1. Why do you blog?
 
Because it's there. Glib, but true. I downloaded the Google toolbar last year and there was a 'Blog This!' button on it. Seemed a waste not to use it, so I set up this blog. It was free, after all.
 
I have continued using it because I find it theraputic and fun and because it's a chance to be a bit of an exhibitionist.
 
2. If you could be someone else for a day who would you choose  and why?
 
My son. I'd love to be that age again knowing what I know now. Especially as he almost certainly has a far cushier time of it than I did at that age.
 
Failing that, any professional story-teller, although they'd have to give me their talent when I 'took over'. I'd love to be able to tell stories to entertain people.
 
3. How do you pronounce your sons name?

You pronounce it 'Cei' :-)
 
It has a hard 'C' at the start and rhymes with 'sky' - 'Kye' is the best approximation.
 
4. If you had no pc or internet access for a month what would you spend the time doing?

Going spare or looking for a PC with internet access :-) Failing that I'd play soldiers, paint soldiers and probably read more than I do at present. I may even catch up on some of the DVDs I have bought but not watched yet.

5. If you could rid the world of one  individual (without violence!) who would it be and why?

Oddly enough, whilst the idea of ridding the world of Ian Paisley, the Reverend Moon or Margaret Thatcher has a certain charm, I'd prefer them to go violently, or at least with maximum humiliation. So, in fact, I'd settle for the bugger with the loud stereo who lives in one of the houses that back onto ours. His removal would have a direct, life-enhancing, effect.

Technological Ignorance
 
Having already cofessed to never having see the Red Arrows perform (aside from on TV) or to have watched an episode of 'Coronation Street' I may as well shred the last piece of credibility I have left. Stef mentioned it, the other day and I'm intrigued, but I have to ask: what's an I-Pod?
 
I can see it's some kind of data storage thing akin to a Walkman, but beyond that I am curiously ignorant as to what it is beyond that. Is a a gadget whereby I can plug it into my PC and proceed to dump onto it the contents of my CD collection? Or is it for storing things you download from music sites? Or both? Or neither? Advice on just what it is I'd be asking for would be very welcome.
 

Airshow
 
No specatcular fly-pasts so far today. But here is a list of what's going to be on display at the show:
 
Farnborough Airshow
 
According to the list the  stealth thing we saw yesterday was, I guess, an F117.
 

Stealthy

The stealth fighter has just flown past my window. Obviously it's not as stealthy as you might think - heard it coming a mile away.

Extra: We've just spent the last half-hour watching the Red Arrows practising for next week. I've never seen them before - quite spectacular it was.

Army Arrives

The figures for my Berkeley 'Hordes of the Things' competition arrived yesterday. For reasons of 'security' I cannot, of course, reveal what they are, but I can tell you they are very nice indeed and, despite being bought virtually sight unseen, exceed all expectations.

I now have (I think) 51 days to assemble them into some kind of useful army structure, paint them, try them out and cobble together a stronghold and some terrain for them. For some of that time, of course, I am on holiday, although there's always room for a small box of paints and brushes, so that need not eat into my time limit. After all, it's like as not to rain half the time we are there, so what else am I to do?

Fiddling With Honours

On the whole I am ambivalent about the honours system. A lot of people get them just for sitting about in the right job, but I do like to see a favourite 'famous person' get one in recognition for their efforts. Somehow a world without Knights, Dames, OBEs and all the rest would be a duller place. So this is worrying:

Honours Outdated

Perhaps they have some points - time-serving civil servants can miss out on a gong and I wouldn't worry. But this business of renaming the OBE just sounds daft. 'Order of the British Empire' might be outmoded, anachronistic or even (according to some) insulting, but 'Order of British Excellence' sounds like a rather limp school prize. Perhaps local headteachers could award them instead of the Queen - indeed it could be argued that the average headteacher is a more worthwhile member of society than HM, so perhaps the idea has merit*. There must be a better 'E' word than 'Excellence'. 'Endeavour', perhaps?

*There goes my knighthood ...

A Man And His Misprints

I am in the process of reading what is possibly the most poorly edited book I have ever read. 'Mike Oldfield – A Man And His Music' by Sean Moraghan is a 1993 biography of what is my favourite artist. But it's so sloppy as to suggest it came straight off the author's word-processor and out to the printers without ever passing through the hands of an editor, let alone past their eyes. There are sentences starting with lower-case letters. There are spelling mistakes. People's names are not capitalised. Quotations start in italics and end in normal text. There are even sentences that make no grammatical sense. Now I know that this blog is guilty of most, if not all, of these crimes but I don't charge you money to read it. Moraghan, or his publisher, does.

The book itself is quite interesting, putting Oldfield's work into context with changes in his life. It's rather sad that the work that is considered his best ('Tubular Bells', 'Hergest Ridge' and 'Ommadawn') was the product of someone who was, for all practical purposes, mentally ill. When he overcame his problems his creativity died as well, leading to the patchy work he produced in the eighties. It wouldn't be a good music book if I didn't disagree with the author, and we certainly don't agree on the quality of some of the later albums covered by it – he raves about the bland 'Discovery' but dismisses the, to my mind, excellent 'Five Miles Out'. I also frowned at his use of the word 'turgid' to describe 'Yes', but overall it's an adequate and readable survey of Mike Oldfield's career, even despite the errors.

What I need now is a biography that covers the years from 1993 onwards.

Vrooooosssshhhh!!

It's noisy at work at the moment, and likely to get worse. I work next to Farnborough airfield, and next week is the biannual Farnborough Air Show. This week, therefore, is the week that the rehearsals take place. All day the sky above the offices has been dominated by military jets screaming past at high speed and performing acrobatics. It's Heathrow on fast-forward. Very impressive, if you can see it – I have a small window and can only see the odd one now and again, but can hear far more. What I can see, though, is the novelty wearing off after a couple of days. And next week we get, in addition to the noise, the pleasure of the local roads being overloaded with show traffic.

Dragons in London

London Zoo is getting a pair of Komodo Dragons as part of a captive breeding programme:

Man-eating Lizards Enter Capital

Forget the cute and cuddly - this is the sort of thing I want to see when I go to a zoo. I saw one of these lizards in Sydney a few years ago I (in a zoo, I hasten to add) and was overwhelmed by how big it was. As Garvan would say: "Awesome".

Back on Top

Hooray! For reasons unknown The Stronghold is once again the first site you hit when you search for 'Hordes of the Things'. A few weeks ago the BBC7 page for the radio series of the same name pushed me into second place.

I actually managed a Googlewhack on my site the other day, but I can't remember what it was now.

The Big Birthday Barbecue

Catherine and I decided to celebrate our birthdays with a joint party this year, seeing as it was my 40th back in May. To this end we decided to have a barbecue and sent out loads of invites. We now find ourselves with less than a week to go and with nearly forty people planning on turning up. Eeek! I think we have all of the bit we need for it, although we are relying on Tesco to deliver a lot of the food (see below for why this may be a foolish thing to do). And, of course, the long range weather forecast is not as perfect as we'd like it to be - quite how we are going to fit forty people into our house if it pisses down like it did on Saturday I have no idea. We do have the promise of a gazebo, though.

Still, it should be a good day, and anything that allows me to eat lots of sausages can't be all bad. Time to burn some more CDs of crap music ...

Garvan's Comments Are Back

Yes, Ulster's Walter Mitty has reinstated them. Well that removal lasted a long time, didn't it? And after he posted this as well:

"So the comments have been removed now, and I do not intend to bring them back."

Lie.

Mind you, since every IP address in the world is banned he's not going to get many people posting things. What a twat.

Tati Outrage

The last comment in my previous entry inspired me to wander off to Amazon and see if any of the works of my favourite Gallic film-maker can be purchased on the silver wonders that are DVDs. Can they bollocks! It's an outrage. Disgraceful. Region 1 only, and then a mere couple of films at that.

Tati on region 2 DVD NOW!

The Crap Film Magnet

It strikes again. Tomorrow is the Knowle Park School Summer fete and Catherine and the children were sorting bits out for it this afternoon after school. This meant that they got first dibs on things. Maya, of course, found some ghastly cuddly toys to buy, so Cei had to have something as well. Bzzzt - the CFM selected the video of 'Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves'. Spare us, please. I mean Alan Rickman is as entertaining as ever, but even he can't salvage a film with Kevin Costner in. And I just know that Cei is going to enjoy it so much that he's going to watch it again. And again. And again.

Revenge will be mine - I'm going to have to break out the M. Hulot collection.

Home Shopping

Does anyone else do this? How do you find it?

Now don't get me wrong - it's years since I've been inside a supermarket to do The Weekly Shop, and I don't miss it. But it would be nice if home shopping managed to be just a little less inept. When we first started doing it some years ago we used Sainsburys. We gave up with them after they persistently not only failed to turn up within the agreed time slot but sometimes failed to turn up at all. This was because the store from which our shopping was sourced was miles away and traffic in these parts can be so crap as to totally paralyse the deliveries. Not their fault but something they could have planned for by, perhaps, using more (local) home stores for their deliveries.

A couple of years ago we switched to Tesco. They delivered from a local store and have always turned up on time. Early, sometimes, even. They have their faults; their pickers - the people who do your shopping - can be appalling. Sometimes the substitutions we get seem to bear no relation to what was originally ordered. But their biggest failing is the loss of chunks of our shopping. Things just don't turn up. Whole bags of things. And tonight was the worst it's ever been. Nine bags of shopping were not only mislaid but, it appears, were not even picked in the first place. Incredible. Now, to be fair, a phone call got it sorted out and one of their delivery drivers dropped it round on his way home. And I'm sure we'll get the cutomary waiver of delivery charge for this week's order as well - they usually do that when they balls things up. But we could have done without it.

I wonder what the service that Waitrose offers is like?

And don't get me wrong. Home shopping is still quicker and easier than doing it for real. It's just good to rant :-)

Now Playing

Nothing. I seem to be unable to rig up any means of playing CDs in the office (in which I am currently alone) despite the fact that all of our PCs have functioning CD drives. The headphone sockets just don't do a thing. I've even tried using my own portable CD player, but have found that my venerable power adapter multi-plug thing doesn't have the correct plug for the player. Grrr. I'll have to resort to the batteries, I guess. Once I've charged them up, of course. Until then it's the rythmic hum of the servers for me.

Parrot Fashion

Unless they live in or around London few people believe us when we say that we have wild parrots living in our area. But here's the story from the BBC:

Wild Parrots Settle in Suburbs

Ours are noisy green parakeets.

The Lure of the Sea

Just to make life difficult it has been announced that the Macclesfield Manoeuvres 2004 'Hordes of the Things' tournament in October is to be a themed event. Optional, of course, but there is much credibility (and, I assume, a prize) for the player coming up with the best army that suits the theme - 'The Lure of the Sea'. Now I already have two armies I could use for this - Fishmen and Pirates, but it is considered churlish not to attend a competition with a brand-new army*, so I'm going to have to put my thinking cap on and come up with something.

So, I need ideas for fantasy armies based on this theme.

*I did it once and almost got away with it.

Euro 2004

For the first time in living memory I've just sat and watched a football match on the telly and stayed awake until the end. The problem is that Cei, being a boy of a certain age and under the influence of friends at school, is a bit into footie. Whereas I'm not. However, being a real star when it comes to being a dad I am sometimes obliged to put aside certain prejudices and encourage his interests, so we told him that if he was well-behaved all weekend he could stay up and watch the Euro 2004 final. And if he was staying up, so was Maya. And if they were both going to be there watching the TV, so was I.

We even went at it the right way - bowls of crisps, beer for Catherine and myself (she endured the first half) and lemonade for the children. We even printed off flags for our team of choice. Cei and Maya opted for Greece, as their friends down the road are of Greek origin, so in order to create some friendly rivalry I went for Portugal. As you can see, I made a bit of a duff choice. I have no idea if it was much of a game or not, but we enjoyed ourselves, so it doesn't matter really. Now they want to watch the Olympics in forty days' time.

Anyone want an A4 size Portuguese flag?

(For readers on another planet, or outside Europe, this is what we are talking about.)

In The Garden

I'm not really one for gardening to tell the truth, and our house has a pretty low-maintenance one anyway - a patch of lawn and a patio, neither of which take much work. Since we moved here about four years ago all we've really done is add a play-house and a climbing-frame for the children.

This Summer, though, things have changed. Flushed with the success of growing Halloween pumpkins last year in the small patch of soil, Catherine and the children have dug up some more of the lawn and planted loads more vegetables this year. And with the Big Birthday Barbecue only a fortnight away the garden needed a serious tidy-up. So that's what we've been up to today - mowing, weeding, cutting back plants and sweeping. It all looks very nice as well. We also paid a visit to Notcutts in order to get a new patio table to replace the one that Cei destroyed a few months ago. That was the plan - we ended up impulse purchasing a pile of other stuff as well. Catherine succumbed to a fig-tree and a garish orange ceramic pot, and these will brighten up the patio. I was seduced by a Naga garden ornament and a Tasmanian Tree fern. Some of the ones they had at the garden centre were several feet high, but I settled for a car-friendly two-footer. With luck, though, it will grow to more impressive proportions. The Naga is lurking in our vegetable patch, looking incongruous.

Anyway, that's me done in the garden for another year.

Awesome Cat!



Tigritsa. She was just begging to be photographed.

Ballet Exam

Maya took a ballet exam yesterday, and I was hoping to post her results as up until now she's always had them then and there. But she's obvioulsy entered the 'big league' now, as it's going to be four weeks before we hear how she's done.

The Evil Mr. Moon

This is a post sent to the BBC Christianity Board by Cameron Jacobson. I tried to ask permission to use it, but the BBC wouldn't allow the post doing so to remain, so I have gone ahead anyway. Cameron, if you read this and either don't want your name associated with it or don't want it published here, then let me know and I will sort it out. Personally I thought it was too good to become a victim of deletion in forty days time.

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The following are extracts taken from various “Master Speaks” they are directly attributable to SMM (Sun Myung Moon - Alan).

"Then in one sense, Father, Heavenly Father will say "Reverend Moon is far better than me, the Heavenly Father". In a short period of time, He will synthesize, He will crush the enemy and let them surrender. Our Master senses this kind of feeling of the Heavenly Father. Also, he is proud of himself and appreciates that Jesus Christ's unfinished job of 6000 years has been completed by him in his lifetime." (MASTER SPEAKS 31/07/74)

In this we hear that Moon considers himself in fact more than just the Messiah, and see a glimpse of his ruthless intent with regard to any who would oppose him or refuse his ultimate end plan.

So are we to believe now that God who sent the Lamb to save mankind has now sent SMM to crush those who don’t accept SMM’s view?

"I have met many famous so-called famous Senators and Congressmen, but to my eyes they are just nothing; they are weak and helpless before God…"If the U.S. continues its corruption, and we find among the Senators and Congressmen no one really usable for our purposes we can make Senators and Congressmen out of our members."(MASTER SPEAKS 17/05/73)

As early as 1973 SMM can be seen for the contempt that he holds for the freely elected government of the United States of America by inference any government. And as early as this he announced his intended aim to usurp the government form the people.

Later the next year he confirms how this is to be achieved.

"Let's say there are 500 sons and daughters like you in each State. Then we could control the Government." (MASTER SPEAKS 24/03/74)

The ravings or delusions of a mad man some may say, however there are now currently in the US alone in excess of 50 individual recruiting fronts, many states having branches of several of the fronts, these fronts target the education establishments, youth activities, women’s groups and religion.

There are some 50 or so separate fronts that are directly linked to religion and operate as a vehicle for infiltration of both ecumenical and specific religious groups and a mechanism by which to entice conversion to Moonism.

These are close to 100 fronts that operate directly within the political arena covering every aspect from state to federal government.

In addition to these key areas of activity there are over 50 Media operations that support these groups with regular publications, there are over 140 ventures that masquerade under Social groups throughout the world but heavily biased in the US.

And Moon has business ventures operating throughout the US, encompassing everything from restaurants to food production and processing, manufacturing industry, and media, medical, in fact there is very little that this man does not have his fingers in. And this is JUST in the US.

Moon organisations have now for decades been courting the conservative right of US politics, encompassing everything from public support for Nixon, through to bankrolling Senator and Congressman Election campaigns right up to the present day

But what vision is it that SMM has, is his intention to simply replace US politicians with people of a like mind to him? Or is there some grander scale in mind?

"When it comes to our age, we must have an automatic theocracy to rule the world. So, we cannot separate the political field from the religious. My dream is to organize a Christian political party including the Protestant denominations, Catholic and all the religious sects. We can embrace the religious world in one arm and the political world in the other."(MASTER SPEAKS 17/05/73)

So his aim is a Global Theocratic government, encompassing all major branches of Christianity, or is it, he later went on to confirm his real intentions.

"So from this time of peak every people or every organization that goes against the Unification Church will gradually come down or drastically come down and die. Many people will die -- those who go against our movement."(MASTER SPEAKS 14/02/74)

There would be no ecumenical accommodation what so ever, all religion and government would be swept aside and replaced with what SMM believes is right, and those that do not conform will be eliminated.

An unrecorded speech which has never the less been substantiated, albeit by ex-Moonies but quite prominent ones, goes on to expand upon the level of control that SMM would look to exert over everyday issues and people.

"When he takes over the U.S., he will amend the Constitution and make it a capital offence for people to have sexual relations with people they are not assigned to".

He proceeded to say that:

"improper sex was one of the greatest sins and that we would be doing those people a favour by taking their physical bodies away from them, so they couldn't sin anymore."

Does any of this sound at all familiar? It is not a million miles away from the selective breeding program conceived by the Nazi regime of the 1930’s and 40’s.

And that’s assuming you are heterosexual, what if you are homosexual, well one can just imagine, but again SMM has publicly proclaimed at various times throughout the intervening 30 years that:

“You can only enter Heaven as a heterosexual couple."

In Moon's world, there will be no rights for gays. Likewise, Moon teaches that all children and all marriages besides those sanctioned by the Unification Church are evil. From his point of view aborting a sinful child (not a product of one of his arranged marriages) is not a sin, it is a good thing since there would be one less person to "restore".

Once again we see the extent of SMM’s totalitarian view for the World and Her peoples I have yet to find his views for the following categories of people:

1) Children born outside and despite of his system of control
2) Children born to couples before they convert
3) Married or committed couples who do not wish to be reassigned to other mates.

But from his previous proclamations we can well guess as to what their fate would be.

And now as we are getting into peoples of the world and their differences, what are SMM’s views upon the diversity of humankind?

"Father thinks about the three races; yellow, and white. Orientals can contribute in the spiritual aspect, white people can contribute in the analytic, scientific area while people can contribute in the physical area." (MASTER SPEAKS 29/07/74)

Now wait a minute this man considers the three races? And classifies them as Yellow White and People, well we all know that he holds the oriental and in particular the Korean to be superior to all other races, nice to see he hasn’t lost touch with his home race, but who the heck are people?

“From now on, two thirds of the athletes may come from people. Even basketball games have a dominant population of people. The talented area of people is in this physical aspect. So, the short cut for the people's achievement in this world is in this physical aspect." (MASTER SPEAKS 7/29/74)

Oh, he means people of African decent, well Mr Moon they are described as Black when one wishes to classify their race, just as Caucasians are described as White and Orientals are described as Yellow.

From the speeches made by SMM we are left in no doubt as to his world view, SMM as king of the world, but more than that a God with a World Theocratic Government based upon his word, thoughts and ideas, rigidly administered in the style of the Cain – Able hierarchy relationship which structures his current organisation.

With Oriental supremacy as the fundamentally spiritual race, Caucasian middle management, and a Black work force.

These are not my words, they are directly attributable to SMM, they can be freely found in publication and on the net.

They have never been contradicted or retracted by SMM or any of his senior people.

They speak plainly regarding the aims and ideology of a man who would rule the entire world by what ever means necessary.

"The whole world is in my hand, and I will conquer and subjugate the world." (MASTER SPEAKS 17/05/73)

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What a lovely man Moon is.

Missing Garvan?

Anyone missing Garvan might be interested in another loon, Vince Govianni. He has his own Yahoo Group:

Adaptation Group

He's not quite in the same league as Garvan for sheer unrestrained lunacy but offers a different approach to 'creationism'. And he is, quite simply, an entertaining moron. I'm sure he'll appreciate the attention for the week or so that Garvan hides from his adoring public.

Garvan's Comments

They've gone again, this time for good. So he says. When his audience walks they'll be back. I give it a week. Maybe two.

Until then, don't forget the Yahoo Group.

The Sounds of Titan

A scientist has worked out what 'waterfalls' would sound like on Titan:

Titan Waterfall

Things have moved on since 'Titan Strike' was published, though - that game has ammonia oceans, and they appear to be methane now. I wonder if that affects game-play?