Rabbit Thought of the Day

It’s become the usual Friday afternoon in the office, everybody is sneaking off early and it’s looking a morgue once again. It always happens around this time sometimes even earlier.

We have a lot of people who have to travel a fair distance they arrive late Monday morning and disappear early on Friday, in reality they only work a four day week. But if truth be told they do put the hours in, they always seem to work late.

It will soon be time to bugger off, even the traffic looks pretty good at the moment, but that can change pretty quick around these parts.

Four men, including a teenager, were stabbed to death in one day in separate attacks in London. A 19-year-old youth, who has not been named, suffered multiple stab wounds in Edmonton, north London. Later on Thursday two men in their 20s were killed in attacks a few miles away in Leyton and Walthamstow, east London.

A man in his 40s died from stab wounds after being found at the back of a disused pub in Tottenham High Street, Tottenham, north London.

Officers were alerted at about 0400 BST by a member of the public who went to Tottenham police station. The victim was found with head injuries and slash wounds and died at the scene. Two men and a woman were arrested nearby and are being held at police stations in north London.

A man aged 34 and a woman, 26, were arrested on Friday in connection with the stabbing in Edmonton. The teenager was found injured by officers called to reports of a fight in Gloucester Road near Silver Street railway station at 1430 BST.

He became the 20th teenager to be killed in London since the start of the year.

At about 1730 BST a man in his 20s was found with a stab wound in Downsell Road, Leyton.

A few hours later, at 2020 BST, a man aged in his 20s was attacked in St David's Court near the junction of Wood Street and Forest Road in Walthamstow. He was found with stab wounds to the head and chest and died at the scene.

Four people have been arrested.

The title is not meant as a joke or a reference to Germany in the 1930’s how can things like this happen in a so called civilised society? Have we now reached new depths of depravity where carrying a knife is seen as a necessity? The police, Government don’t seem to have a clue how to regain the initiative on knife crime, but something needs to done immediately otherwise these headlines will greet us every day.

David Gray has lambasted American interrogators for allegedly using his music to help extract information from internees in Iraq. Why might his music be chosen and what effect on prisoners is music meant to achieve?

This is not the first we've heard of familiar recordings being used in the "war on terror" - in 2003, Rick Hoffman, a veteran of US psy-ops - "psychological operations" - talked to the BBC about the use of tunes from Sesame Street and Barney The Dinosaur to break the will of Iraqi captives.

And recent reports have added Eminem, the Bee Gees and Neil Diamond to the roster reluctantly referred to by David Gray as "Guantanamo Greatest Hits". But what is it that makes one song more likely than another to be played on a maximum volume loop at terrorist suspects?

I like David Gray’s music but I think tunes from ‘Sesame Street’ and ‘Barney the Dinosaur’ would break me straight away. I’m sure some of the Rap music and garbage (sorry I mean garage….lol) would break a few people as well.

Do you fancy living here, this is a new complex built in Dubai, it looks like a load of shoe boxes, built very close together, even if each house as it’s own beach area I don’t fancy the idea.

At 2,620 ft (801m) these photographs are taken from the world’s tallest building or will be when complete, being an engineer in construction and I did a bit of rock climber when I was in the army this still makes a little dizzy!

A MAN was operated on in Hornsby Hospital, Australia to remove 16 stainless steel washers from his penis. Berowra Fire Rescue officers were called to alleviate the man from his awkward predicament.

It is believed the only lasting damage may be to his pride. People will do the strangest things.

Warsaw - A Polish man got the shock of his life when he visited a brothel and spotted his wife among the establishment's employees.

The Polish tabloid Super Express said the woman had been making some extra money on the side while telling her husband she worked at a store in a nearby town.

Rastafarians caught in possession of marijuana in Italy may now have legal recourse, thanks to a high court ruling made public on Thursday.

Italy's Court of Cassation ruled that since the Rastafari religion considers marijuana a sacrament, its members should be given special consideration when it comes to possession -- and how much makes a drug trafficker.

The case before the judges dealt with a reggae musician who was sentenced to 16 months in prison by a lower court in Perugia after being found in possession of enough marijuana to roll 70 cigarettes.

The Court of Cassation annulled his sentence, saying the amount appeared appropriate for personal use considering the heavy amounts that Rastafarians smoke, and ordered an appellate court in Florence to review the case.

"He was convicted because of the amount ... for trafficking, but it was for his own personal use," said the defendant's lawyer, Caterina Calia.

Rastafari, a religion that emerged in Jamaica in the 1930s, considers Ethiopia its spiritual home and that country's former emperor, Haile Selassie, a divine figure.

Up to 10 percent of Jamaicans identify themselves as Rastas, but they are virtually unheard of in Roman Catholic Italy.

Friday has arrived at last, this week seems to have dragged, perhaps it was the two days I spent on a design workshop but it doesn’t really matter now, only a few more hours and I be able to head home and put my feet up and relax.

Tomorrow, I am definitely heading to the RSPB site at Rainham Marshes, I missed out last week, because of a gippy tummy, but not this week I am going come ‘Hell or High Water’.

Don’t you just love Friday’s the end of the working week and two days of relaxation and fun to follow? That’s unless you are one of the unlucky ones who have to work over the weekend, for you guys sorry, but am sure you will have the time during the week.

David Davis won the Haltemprice and Howden by-election with a 15,355 majority and 72% of the vote, Mr Davis triggered the by-election himself when he resigned over the issue of 42 days detention for terror suspects. The Lib Dems and Labour did not stand.

The question is, did he actually achieve anything, apart from a waste of money that is? Yes he made a stand against the 42 day detention but surely there must have been a better ways of doing it. His leader wasn’t too happy about it but to his credit did support him, well at least publicly. I fully believe 42 Day detention is wrong and not justified. It seems however; quite a few of the House Lords are against it, including Labour Peers.

Friendly fire, has seriously injured 3 members of 2 Para and wounded 9 others, the MoD is investigating how this could happen. The Para were on a routine patrol when they encountered the Taliban, in the fighting the troops called for air support which after successfully engaging an enemy position fired on another position which it mistook for the Taliban, unfortunately this was a Para position and the troops were injuries in the engagement.

2 Para are having a difficult tour so far 7 have they troops have been killed, with many more wounded.