On By-elections and Reptilian Humanoids

Interesting to hear that the Green party is to run against civil liberties martyr David Davis in the Haltemprice and Howden by-election campaign.  Green party candidate Shan Oakes will stand against him and this is very good thing indeedy.  She has a blog and her tag-line is . . . The real civil liberties candidate.
Yes, odd as it may [...]

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(Almost) Rants and Viewing Points

What’s that phrase they use about a week being a very long time in politics?  Oh yes, I remember.  It’s . . . a week is a very long time in politics. 
The same can be said about the news. 
I get my time on the pc and one of the first things I do is check out the news.  [...]

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Stupid is as Stupid Does

I was astonished when I read this article.  Obecalp is a placebo designed for children.  Jennifer Buettner who’s company produced the drug said . . . “When drugs are not needed and the patient still thinks that medicine would help, we believe that the placebo effect can work,”
This is a staggeringly stupid comment!  No, Jennifer, when drugs [...]

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Excuse Me! Are we invisible?

So asketh the Church according to St. England. 
I’ve been catching up with the news and was amused to see that the Church of England is sulking because it thinks the government is favouring Islam.  Ah bless.  My kids do this too.  They carry out all kinds of attention-seeking antics when they feel that I’m paying more attention to one of their siblings.  Well [...]

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My Wonderful Plan and other things

Sheesh guys!  I go away for a while to get ready for the reunion today and this place turns into ghost land.  The only hits I’m getting are generated from that new automatically-generated thingy that WordPress added recently.  Even the spammers have lost interest.
Anyway, to bring you up-to-date and make sure you haven’t forgotten me, [...]

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My Role as the Weapons Inspector

My son’s school had a charity day yesterday to raise funds for the people of Burma and the kids got to go to school dressed as their hero.  Although the school didn’t specify, I presumed (wrongly as it turned out) that these heroes had to be of the real life, actual flesh and blood variety which meant that Bart Simpson, Sponge Bob Square Pants and [...]

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Pastor Parsley!

Introducing Raving Rev. Rod - American televangelist, dominionist and denouncer of all things Islamic, homosexual or non-Jesus worshipping. 
Senator John McCain calls him a spiritual guide.  I’d call him a misguided spirit.

Really!  Well apologies for dragging up an old post  but where do the religious right get their self-righteous superiority from?  What is it with their deep and unmoving belief [...]

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Food Profiteering: Investing in Starvation

According to the Independent on Sunday . . . giant agribusinesses are enjoying soaring earnings and profits out of the world food crisis which is driving millions of people towards starvation.
Why am I not surprised?  I read an article on the Food First website a while ago saying pretty much the same thing.  In fact, much [...]

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No evidence of Migrant Crime Wave

“A wide-ranging police study has concluded that the surge in immigrants from eastern Europe to Britain has not fuelled a rise in crime.”   Guardian
Is anyone surprised?  Thinking people everywhere have always claimed that this immigrancy and crime link is a myth spread by the scaremongers and reinforced by the uninformed and the ignorant. 
In fact, many of the immigrants themselves [...]

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Please Miss?

Why am I scared of the Head teacher?  Why does she make me feel like a little school girl who has not done her homework?  I’m not kidding!  She takes me right back to my timid childhood days of being terrified of teachers.
I’ll set the scene . . . 
Last week, my son’s school held its Culture Week and on [...]

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I’m going in . . . .

My son led me to his room this morning and asked if I thought he should be on Clutter Nutters.  I said definitely, yes.
He had the demolition squad round yesterday and this is what they did . . . .

I can put up with the mess for so long - I can convince myself that he is a [...]

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Our Kids

This weeks Time magazine has a very long article entitled “Britain’s Mean Streets”.  The international version has the title “Unhappy, Unloved and Out of Control”.  It’s a pretty damning report that claims that our kids are . . . yes, out of control - that Britons are frightened of their own young.  In short, British [...]

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On Sofa’s and Sod’s law

Why is it that when people clean out their sofa’s they always find money among the crumbs and when I clean out my sofa all I find is the remote control that we long since gave up looking for and no longer have the TV that it belongs to anyway?

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Sophie’s Justice

The young teenage boy who pleaded not guilty to the brutal murder of the sweet and lovely Sophie Lancaster has today been found guilty.  He will be sentenced along with his despicable co-murderer.  They will also be sentenced with three other young boys for the savage attack on Sophie’s courageous boyfriend, Rob.  The sentences will be given [...]

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Where’s the Outrage?

First of all, I apologise for the negative, melancholic even, tone of this blog lately (well it is Good Friday, isn’t it).  Anyway, if I have any readers left at all, all I can say is sorry, I think the Sophie Lancaster case and the Iraq anniversary have really got to me.  Normal service will be [...]

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