Orkney In The News...

This from the BBC News Website today:

Scotland's "Earliest Face" Found In Orkney

lol... A bored Neolithic man's doodle of the wife?

A Dark Day For Scotland...

So, Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi is released on compassionate grounds, suffering from terminal prostate cancer, and returns home (in a jet belonging to leader Colonel Gaddafi, no less) to Libya to a "hero's welcome" - crowds at the airport waving Libyan and Scottish flags...

Gaddafi's son proclaimed this as a "courageous" move on Scotland's part.

Anger At Lockerbie Bomber Welcome
Homecoming For Lockerbie Bomber
Audio Slideshow: Remembering Lockerbie
Wikipedia: Pan-Am Flight 103
Wikipedia: Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi

In my view, this is a huge mistake. The man is a convicted murderer, found guilty of the killing of 270 people. He should have been left to rot in jail... The MOST he should have been given was a prison transfer to a jail in Libya. As it is, he's not even under house arrest. Sure, his conviction hasn't been overturned, so he's still guilty in the eyes of the law - but he's still at home, with his family... which is more than can be said for those whose lives he ended in such a callous and cowardly manner.

And Scotland scores some brownie points with a country with a history of terrorism... Great(!)

Shame on you, Kenny MacAskill... You have made me ashamed of my nationality for the first time in my life...

In The News...

This story from STV news:

Pensioner Admits To Frenzied Killing Of Wife

Of course, this is not funny... but you have to laugh a little at the conversation with the 999 operator:

Brown: I’ve killed my wife.
Operator: Sorry, you've killed your wife?
Brown: Hopefully, with a bit of luck, yes.