No surprise to me.

Did you know that Communist International under Stalinism in the 1930s advanced the proposition that social democracy and fascism were ‘not antipodes but twins’.

Tiger pastor!

Hull midfielder Geovanni is working as a pastor at a Manchester church in his spare time.
The Brazilian, who previously played for Manchester City, attends the New Hope Fellowship Church in Hulme. Geovanni, 29, also runs football workshops with local children after arriving in Manchester two years ago.
"Deiber (Geovanni) has been working with boys in the local area and doing some great work," Pastor Ezequias Santos, head priest at the church, told the Manchester Evening News.
"Like Kaka, he is a Brazilian player who has kept his faith and remained humble even though his life is now very different to ours.
He wants to be part of the community and help youths develop good behaviour, even though he now has a wealthy background."
Geovanni, who scored eight goals last season, is currently in Italy at Hull's training camp as the club prepare for a second successive campaign in the Barclays Premier League.

LINK: http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/09072009/63/heaven-hull-pastor-geo.html

In vino veritas?

'The View From Here' by Dave Challice is a book I really must try to get my hands on. I have just read a tremendous review of it in that excellent journal, 'The Flag'.

He describes a happy encounter with olive growers in S. Italy, thus:
' ... over a few litres of wine in the local tavern we eventually got onto politics. I asked them: "What do you think about all those rules and regulations from Brussels?"
They looked at each other and one of them smiled as he filled my glass. "You mean the English Laws?"
"No. I mean all that bureaucracy from the EU."
He set down the bottle. "Allow me to explain ... We call them The English Laws because you're the only ones stupid enough to obey them."

Oh dear. The truth can really hurt. Can't it?

Teacher seriously injures pupil.

The terrible events in Mansfield leave a 14 year old seriously injured in hospital and a teacher on a charge of attempted murder - which will inevitably be reduced to GBH over the course of time.

Only those who have stood in front of a class of louts could possibly understand the true nature of this tragedy.

Over decades, literally tens of thousands of teachers have been driven out of the profession, broken by taunting, abuse, low level disobedience, pig ignorance, idleness, bad language, contempt, violence and even advanced apathy.

What is so amazing is that what occurred yesterday does not happen more frequently - or even regularly!

That is not to defend this man at all - but rather to take all of the circumstances into account.

I would guess that my readers will already know where the true blame for all of this lies.

You KNOW who they are already. You KNOW what they have done to destroy respect, decency and discipline.

In my second week as a student teacher at a sink school in Rotherham, I gently asked a pretty, sweet-looking 12 year old to move some books.

"F**** off, you!" was the response which, coming so out of the blue, shocked me silly.

It got worse. I went to the Senior Mistress to report this whereupon her precise words to me were, "When you get to be more experienced, you will learn to avoid these sort of confrontations." - I was so shocked that I didn't even reiterate that there had been nothing whatsoever to precipitate this.

What a sad world!

Galatians 1 verses 3 - 5. For my all readers.

'Grace and peace to you all from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.'

A thought.

Why is Health & Safety legislation so perverse, intrusive and all pervasive?

One point amongst a great many - maybe our litigious society has caused it!

Reason.

I have written in the past about the need for a 'Law of Common Sense' but have struggled to work out how such an alien concept could possibly be enacted in our mad, mad,mad,mad UK.

I have now advanced the idea to a second stage.

Working on the basis that it is entirely impossible to eradicate all the nonsense which has found its way into our laws, regulations, precedents et al without some twenty years of very hard toil, there has to be an intermediate step.

For that period, an 'Appeal to Reason' would apply in all legal circumstances.

So, for example, if a burglar breaks into a business then damages himself severely in the process, in our current state of idiocy, he is allowed to sue, will probably succeed and a huge award will be made in his favour!

Okay, then. We permit this to continue in the interim where all judicial decisions could be submitted to the new appeals process wherein the enshrined principle would be "What would the 'Man on the Clapham Omnibus' conclude?"

On such a basis, the shyster lawyers would no longer be able to mount silly cases as the ultimate result would always be in serious jeopardy and subject to awards of costs!

[There are of course, possibilities to extend this into criminal areas where prosecutions have failed on silly technicalities and justice has been avoided.]

I am of course, fully aware that it would be entirely necessary to withdraw from the European Union and the European Courts for this to occur.

I know immigration controls are needed but .....

'The EU should sink boats carrying illegal immigrants to prevent them entering Europe, British National Party leader Nick Griffin has told the BBC.
The MEP for the North-West of England said the EU had to get "very tough" with migrants from sub-Saharan Africa. '

Isn't he just so cuddlesome?

http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8141069.stm

Health & Safety KILLS!

'A grandfather was left dying while a paramedic spent 16 minutes carrying out a health and safety check on his flat.
Roy Adams, 61, was told to leave the entrance to his home open for emergency workers after he dialled 999 for medical help following a suspected heart attack.
But it is thought that the rapid response medic who was first at the scene feared the open door and another on the latch meant the flat was being burgled.
He waited outside and conducted a risk assessment while waiting for police support vehicles to arrive.
By the time he entered the property Mr Adams had collapsed to the floor, unable to breathe. He died on the way to hospital.'

OR was it just an appalling communications breakdown?

LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1197854/Grandfather-left-dying-paramedic-carried-16-minute-risk-assessment-outside-home.html

Bribe you to keep on breaking the law!

'Gipsies and travellers have been paid £60 each of taxpayers' money to attend a conference telling them how to see a doctor and send their children to school.
Dozens turned up at the day-long summit yesterday after they were offered the fee.
It advised them how to find a GP, dentist and a school for their children while moving between illegal sites.
Organisers of the Traveller and Gipsy Awareness Day handed out the money because they feared that few would attend without the financial incentive.'

No comment!

LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1198234/Gipsies-given-60-listen-advice-health-schools.html

I wish you well England.

The Ashes series begins today! Good luck England and may Andrew Strauss end up as happy as Michael Vaughan was back in 2005!

Teen pregnancies.

' A multi-million pound initiative to reduce teenage pregnancies more than doubled the number of girls conceiving.
The Government-backed scheme tried to persuade teenage girls not to get pregnant by handing out condoms and teaching them about sex.
But research funded by the Department of Health shows that young women who attended the programme, at a cost of £2,500 each, were 'significantly' more likely to become pregnant than those on other youth programmes who were not given contraception and sex advice.'

This is the inevitable consequence of amoral teaching. We cannot be surprised at the outcome. The only thing that continues to amaze is that the liberal left who see almost every one of their social experiments crumble or at best, see them having to 'massage the stats' to achieve a modicum of respectability, are literally incapable of ever learning anything!

At Handsworth Christian School, where I teach Sex Education, to the best of our knowledge, there have been no pregnancies amongst our pupils over a 23 year period. Certainly, several have become pregnant at a later point but our record of putting sex into a moral, practical and Christian framework should clearly be a model for other schools.

LINK: '

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1198228/6m-drive-cut-teen-pregnancies-sees-DOUBLE.html

Tra la la.

Murderers & rapists at large: Police won't name 1,000 criminals who should be in jail but have vanished... to protect THEIR privacy.

LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1197838/Revealed-1000-criminals-breached-terms-release-large.html

3 more dead? - Just not worth it!

Three more dead in one weekend. 176 dead British personnel in Afghastlystan.

This is supposed to be a multi-national exercise. If so, why is it that our casualties are so disproportionate? - We have done our bit - time to quit!

Now, there's a worthy slogan!

Understanding Taqiyya.

This item is for those who do not understand what makes Islam tick.

http://www.islam-watch.org/Warner/Taqiyya-Islamic-Principle-Lying-for-Allah.htm

"The love of money is the root of much evil."

Did Jesus preach against the rich?
Well - er - yes - er- I mean - no. Maybe!
Jesus made no social comments about the wealthy other than to make it clear that the rich should choose to spread their money to aid the less fortunate. There is little evidence to support the argument I heard from a leftie, "Ah, yes. Jesus was the first socialist." [There is a singular absence of Robin Hood economics in Scripture.]
Jesus does not preach against wealth per se but against the misuse of it! Our envious lefties resent its very existence. In the parables of The Rich Man & Lazarus, The Rich Fool and the story of The Rich Young Ruler, wealth is seen as a barrier to spiritual growth. We must not forget that it is not just wealth which can be 'an idol' or a barrier between man and God - there are a great many other pitfalls.
Jesus does of course, mention the problems of the rich when speaking of the difficulties of 'camels progressing through the eyes of needles' but does go on to say that 'With God, all things are possible'.

One small problem for us in Western society today is that, although we tend not to have servants, in all other ways we are vastly more wealthy than the people described in these stories!

Religious Education.

By and large, Religious Education is a major disaster in our nation. It has been created through the efforts of liberal church people combined with minority religionists. The efforts of the terminally secular, both soft and hard left, as well as atheists and agnostics who despise all forms of faith complete the picture.

This form of education is designed to damage, dilute, diminish and debilitate. In endless amounts of schools, where there is no solid Christian input at all, these courses sell our young people desperately short.
My children were educated in a Christian school and I simply would not have been prepared to have them educated through such an appalling system. I would have categorically refused to allow this vile multifaith approach to infect my children.
It behoves all Christian parents to find out just who is teaching 'religion' to their children.
I am amazed how readily Christian parents dump their offspring into state education. Some evangelicals ludicrously claim that their child will be 'salt' amongst all the non faith children. For every one where this is true, peer pressure probably wrecks the spiritual growth of another dozen!

It is little surprise that hostility to Christianity has multiplied in the last five years. We have now reached a place where a majority of our population has no idea what Christianity is; what it teaches; what the Bible says; what its relevance is; its history; our national traditions; its links to Art & Literature; why people need Jesus.
Such victims of a dreadful system are horrendously open to negatives when they possess no overview whatsoever.

YP letter on wind turbines - a perspective.

From: Thomas Sheriff, Nettleham Road, Lincoln.

WITH regard to the letter from Mark Gregory (Yorkshire Post, June 24), the major problem with all wind turbines is their unreliability. Being totally dependent on the variations of the wind, they can only generate useful amounts of energy within a relatively narrow band of wind speeds. A good example was on a very cold day last December when the demand on the system was 58,000 megawatts (MW). The possible declared output from more than 2,000 wind turbines was in excess of 1,800MW; the amount that was actually generated by wind power was no more than 36MW – less than 0.06 per cent of the total load demand on that day.They are also very expensive to maintain, requiring the erection of very expensive scaffolding and they are, for this reason, subsidised by the Government to approximately £250,000 per wind turbine per annum. By contrast, nuclear power stations do not receive a subsidy. Last year, in Denmark, two wind turbines were totally destroyed when they could not be stopped in a high wind. Technicians sent to resolve the problem had to run for their lives when the structures collapsed.They are also prone to lightning strikes and there was a case in Japan where more than 50 wind turbines were damaged, several beyond repair, when the blades sheared off in high winds. Only a few months ago, in Lincolnshire, one machine was put out of action because of blade fatigue.

Now will you believe me about our education system?

Did he repent after all?

Sadly, there have been many half truths winging around the Internet about Michael Jackson having repented and accepted Christ in his latter days.

As far as I can ascertain, this is the truth:

“Andrae and Sandra [Christian evangelists] did in fact visit with Michael Jackson two times, once at the recording studio, and once at his home in the last two months, as recently as three weeks ago, asking for prayer concerning the anointing of the Holy Spirit, and how he could make his music more ‘spiritual,’” noted Crouch’s Facebook administrator.
“So Andrae and Sandra explained to him about the anointing and about Jesus. He wanted to know what makes your hands go up, and makes you ‘come out of yourself,’ and what gives a ‘spirituality’ to the music? He then requested to hear his favorite song that he loves and wanted then to sing to him, so they...joined hands and sang together, and he said, ‘it was beautiful.’ He first heard it in New York, and loved it and wanted it on tape. He had the engineer tape the song sang to him by Andrae and Sandra. He definitely had an encounter with them.”
As to whether or not the legendary singer had prayed to receive Christ, through his spokesman Crouch responded: “He did NOT reject Jesus or the prayer when (we) prayed, and gladly joined in prayer.”
“He usually doesn’t touch anybody, but he touched them, and held their hands in a circle as they sang and prayed,” continued Andrae Crouch’s spokesman. “There was NO actual ‘sinners prayer’ however, but they did talk and pray about Jesus and the anointing of the Holy Spirit. They also told him, ‘Michael, we consider you as our son,’ and he said, “yes, yes, yes” and gave him his latest music on a CD, and he told him, ‘Andrae I trust you with this,’ and gave him CD’s of 2 songs...unpublished, beautiful music.”

LINK: http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2009/s09060170.htm

The Commission on English Prisons Today.

The Commission on English Prisons Today [WHO?] is the latest bunch of total losers, claiming to be 'independent', winning unmerited publicity and issuing forth the self same mantras used by the liberal left since the 1950s:

Prison doesn't work.
Community punishments do.
Prisons cost too much
Etc, etc etc.

I can assure you that if all were jailed for serious crimes, for persistent minor offending and breaches of court orders and they had to serve the bulk of their sentences in an austere institution singularly lacking in entertainment facilities - crime would plummet.
[Oh - and an added bonus, such prisons are CHEAPER!]

They are utterly wrong and then demand a cure of MORE OF THE SAME!

An old favourite.

"The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity."

Benjamin Disraeli.

No Christian can vote BNP. Read the quotes!

The BNP represents “indigenous Anglo-Saxon, Celtic and Norse communities of Britain” and further states that the party exists for the preservation of “indigenous Caucasian” people. In addition the constitution also states the BNP is “wholly opposed to any form of racial integration” and is committed through repatriation and other means to restore “the overwhelmingly white makeup of the British population that existed in Britain prior to 1948.”

The same with many!

Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.

~W.C. Fields

Evans.

Yet again, the claim of innocence for Timothy Evans, hanged for the murder of his wife and child in 1950, is being put forward. This is one myth I really had felt was permanently debunked - but no. Back it comes - this time in the Mail!

There was only one problem with the conviction of Evans. He lived in the same tenement block as the infamous mass murderer, Christie.
It is claimed by the dishonest and film makers that Evans was hanged based on the testimony of Christie, which is simply untrue. Christie had testified prior to the fact of his own bad habits becoming known certainly - but his testimony was largely peripheral.

Evans had already made attempts on his wife's life - something conveniently missing amongst all the propaganda.

Even so, this matter was considered a godsend by the abolitionists who were desperate in their quest for a martyr. Evans fitted their bill.
Ludovic Kennedy and a man named Eddowes led the campaign.

Years after, the son of this Eddowes was so utterly disgusted by his late father's dishonesty in this case that he wrote a book which is now the definitive version on these events. The dubious and dishonest tactics used in the 'martyr creation' are fully outlined.

There is only one conclusion that can be reached - and it is entirely different from that presented in the appallingly biased and factually dishonest film by Richard Attenborough, called "10 Rillington Place."

Please read:
"The two killers of Rillington Place"
Author:
John Eddowes.

NOTE:

Hanratty, the A6 murderer, was unsurprisingly confirmed as guilty by forensic work a few years ago by Wetherby Forensic Laboratory.

As Ruth Ellis and Bentley, other causes célèbres were both guilty by all legal definitions in the 50s, their cases may have been a little disquieting but were not miscarriages of justice.

Abolitionists tried for decades to find martyrs to their cause. They failed!

I'd wager that the irony was lost on him.

'Now is not the time for soundbytes. I can feel the hand of history on my shoulder.'

Tony Blair

When will this lunacy reverse?

YOUNG thugs should be spared jail because of their “immaturity”, judges have been told.
New guidelines say that even persistent offenders should not be locked up as their behaviour may simply be down to youthful high spirits.
Judges are also being ordered not to punish youngsters for behaving rudely in court. They might feel they are being “discriminated against” by the justice system, according to the new ­government recommendations.

NO! WE MUST MOVE ENTIRELY IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION.

Why do most criminals offend? - Because they have no fear of the consequences of their actions! Just how thick or blinkered do you have to be to fail to grasp the blindingly obvious?

My spy in local Magistrates Court has relayed to me the anger and dejection of the magistrates. These people work unpraised and unpaid for the community. Their hands are tied more tightly year on year!

If I had still been a JP - this would have been the last straw. [Pun intended]

It would be interesting to know how many top notch magistrates will be lost because they will have finally reached the end of their tether!

LINK: http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/111304/Judges-told-not-to-jail-the-yobs-

'Town halls were poised to scrap fortnightly bin collections yesterday after the heatwave sparked a massive surge in maggots and flies.'
One small problem. In order to bring this about Council Tax bills will soar.
Let us not forget where the blame lies. THE EU with its Waste Directive which has wickedly bullied councils.

The European Union's waste legislation comprises three main elements:
Framework legislation, for example covering waste definitions, permitting requirements and infrastructure
Technical standards for the operation of waste facilities to ensure a high standard of environmental protection
Requirements for specific waste streams, for example measures to increase recycling or to reduce hazardousness.

How strange that as a nation we are just incapable of making our own decisions on such matters.
This is what happens when your country has seen its quisling politicians sell off our birthright to Brussels for a mess of directives.

LINK:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1196933/Bin-U-turn-Councils-scrap-fortnightly-collections-heatwave-sparks-rise-maggots-flies.html

Cameron - oh, dear!

'Cameron apologises to gays for Section 28: Law to ban promotion of homosexuality in schools was wrong, says Tory leader.'

If UKIP were ever to collapse - no way that I shall EVER vote tory!

Please note that he is not apologising for prejudicial treatment which would be acceptable - no - he is saying that 'the active promotion of homosexuality is fine' to schoolchildren.
IT IS NOT!

LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1196924/Cameron-apologises-gays-Section-28-Maggies-law-ban-promotion-homosexuality-schools-wrong-says-Tory-leader.htm

Double standards or just plain hypocrisy?

'A school told a child to remove a Christian cross she was wearing even though it lets Sikh children wear bangles as part of their religion.
Lauren Grimshaw-Brown was told to take off a necklace with a cross on it because of health and safety fears.
But the eight-year-old's furious mother has accused the school of double standards because they allow children following other faiths to wear jewellery on religious grounds.
The mother-of-two says Lauren and brother Callan, five, have always worn crosses at St Peter's CE School in Chorley, Lancashire.
'We're a Christian family and my children wear the necklaces underneath their tops,' she said.

No comment required - just the award of a LoonyTunesWatch coconut to St Peter's C of E school in Chorley.

LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1196794/CoE-school-pupil-banned-wearing-crucifix-Sikh-pupils-allowed-wear-bangles.html

Benzo horror!

Read the link!
I have known Ray throughout this period and am happy to confirm the accuracy of this horrendous tale!

http://www.benzo.org.uk/ray3.htm

Biggs.

It has been announced this morning that Jack Straw is refusing to sanction the release of Ronnie Biggs from prison at 79 and near the end of his life.

Few readers can possibly be in any doubt that I firmly believe in punishments being made to fit crimes.

Train driver Jack Mills received injuries so serious in the Great Train Robbery that he was eventually to die from them. Was Biggs the dealer of the blow to his head? - Almost certainly not.

After 'cocking a snook' at the entire nation by 'living it large' in Brazil after his escape from prison, it was right that he was brought back to 'pay his debt to society' and that is what has happened.

I could not care less that Biggs has not shown remorse - few criminals do, although tens of thousands regularly pretend to do so for parole boards up and down the land!

I am simply astonished that the Man of Straw has turned vengeful. This is no longer justice and even if he lives another couple of disabled years outside jail - so what?

We seldom punish criminals in this nation - why start with a dying man?

The Socialist Campaign Group.

Follow the link below and you will see some familiar faces from the left. The outwardly jocular and charming but nonetheless deadly, Diane Abbott, and the horrendous Ken Livingstone are just two names to conjure with.
We worry about 2 BNP MEPs - and rightly. But there is a question of scale here - there are currently 27 members of this extreme group in the Westminster Parliament - hopefully many fewer after a general election!
Racism is NOT the only measure of an extremist!

http://www.poptel.org.uk/scgn/

How to succeed in Labour politics.

In so many organisations, a prerequisite of success for the ambitious youngster is membership of a masonic lodge - you can certainly forget serious promotions without it in the police force.

In The Labour Party, the catalyst for success for many is a membership of that profoundly sinister grouping, The Fabian Society.

I have not covered this devious phalanx for a long time.

Margaret Thatcher compared communism to death by fast-acting poison and socialism as a slow poison. This latter image fits the Fabians, oh so well.

They have never been in any hurry to destroy society from within but the attempt is relentless. Dating back to the end of the nineteenth century, they are neither cuddly nor reasonable.

Do you perhaps doubt my assessment? - Then consider their carefully planned escutcheon - a wolf in sheep's clothing!

Worship Him; praise Him; THANK Him.

Lord God, for coffee - thankyou - particularly in the mornings after hot, sultry nights where sleep has been nigh on impossible!

The Turin Shroud: spiritual backwater.

If you search through the New Testament, you will struggle long and hard and fruitlessly to find any veneration of relics whatsoever, whether they be crowns of thorns, Last Supper crockery or crucifixion nails.
So why all the nonsense about the Shroud of Turin?

Let us say that it is indeed real. Then so what? - It adds nothing to the relationship between God and Man of each individual, which is all that truly matters.
If you need relics to promote faith - just what kind of understanding of the qualities of faith do you possess?
In all likelihood, as Channel 5 made the point last night, it is a fake.
Historically of course it would have interest; spiritually it has none.

A reminder.

Dear Friends,
Perhaps you intended to pass details of this Blog onto people who would welcome it and you never quite got around to it.
Good news! It is not too late!
Just copy and paste: http://christianityisnotleftwing.blogspot.com/
and then send.

Regards.

Where are the left hiding?

Most leftwingers can today be found in The Labour and Liberal Democrat parties although a fair number of tories are unrecognisable as being conservative in any way.
Quite commonly, we see information given on the hard right groups in the UK but seldom those of the hard left, so here is something to redress that balance:

What a Paine!

"He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent which will reach to himself."

Thomas Paine (1737-1809),

The Reverend Dr Giles Fraser.

Dr Giles Fraser, who, in response to proposals to force churches to employ workers in same sex relationships under the terms of its Equality Bill, recently warned, 'We must not allow homophobia to disguise itself as any sort of legitimate religious belief – it isn’t! Homophobia is a sin and its eradication from churches, mosques and synagogues is one of the most urgent challenges for people of faith in the 21st century." And with this pronouncement, Fraser inflates the term ’homophobia’ to include not only the historic teaching of his own Church and Communion, but that of Islam and Judaism too!

My thanks to Charles Raven.

Strange really. What are the possibilities here then?

a] 'This professional christian' has not read the Bible in full.
b] 'This professional christian' has read it and doesn't care what it says.
c] 'This professional christian' has read it and isn't bright enough to have understood it. (Don't ever let a doctorate fool you.)
d] 'This professional christian' does not believe in the divine inspiration of Scripture.
e] 'This professional christian' thinks that God is behind the times.
f] 'This professional christian' believes that he knows better than God.
g] 'This professional christian' believes that modern man has advanced so wonderfully that all liberal christians, modernists, do-gooders, agnostics, atheists, totem worshippers and socialists have a better overview than The Almighty.
h] 'This professional christian' believes that Man should be free to do just what the hell he likes and God must come to an accomodation with that.
i] 'This professional christian' believes that God forgives and He will always forgive, come what may. Repentance is not necessary.

I have no idea how many of the above apply in this case. What I do know is that I have proved in my own life that God's Word can be relied on. Incidentally, I have read the whole of the Bible!

Survival.

The Songbird Survival Trust is on the side of birds; songbirds to be precise.

With the 'no cull' attitudes to corvidae from the RSPB, it is much harder to see how that body is actually on the side of our pretty, feathered friends at all.

The proliferation of crows and in particular, magpies, is wrecking our bird populations and in my postcode has almost removed songbirds altogether.

May I therefore ask readers to offer support to the organisation which is sensibly pushing for a major cull.

The absurdly tender-hearted who equate such measures to genocide really must try to get a grip on reality.

How to increase and build on racist successes.

Six out of 8 photos on Crimewatch's 'Most Wanted' last night were of people from ethnic minorities and/or recent immigrants.
That phenomenal percentage of 75% has been common over many years on that programme.
The numbers of immigrants who are criminal is clearly disproportionate to their numbers.
I make no point out of this other than to highlight a fact which other media and politicians are not prepared to raise.
Refusing to acknowledge facts is likely to result in increased levels of racism.

Concealment does not fool the populace - it just breeds bitterness and resentment.

It is very tempting too for Christians to try to play down the issue - it is a mistake!

PS. If you know the whereabouts of any of this unholy octet - please call the Police!

Lib Dem policies.

The next time somebody tells you that they are going to vote Lib Dem, ask them to tell you three of their policies.
A surprising number of their voters haven't got a clue about what they actually believe and many would be shocked if they found out!

This is the party of the marxist-leaning social worker, the ivory tower university lecturer and the quangocrat.
Tragically, they win many votes from those who genuinely think that 'They are the middle ground between Labour & Conservatives'. They are not!
They are the most leftwing of the three major parties; they are sold-out europhiles; weak on crime and immigration and the most politically correct of the major parties.
If that's what you want - feel free - vote for the so-and-sos!

All protest votes should now go to UKIP as a default position in a General Election.

The writer.

So, then. Where do I stand politically?

It is a fair question from readers of this Blog and is not so easily answered.

Primarily, I oppose leftwing politics, whether old-style or new liberal. But can a person be defined by what they are not?

At one time, I would have been seen as a rather orthodox Conservative - and I have not changed too greatly from that position - but the Conservative Party certainly has!

I am a democrat - perhaps rightly called a Christian Democrat - although hardly in the vein found in a number of European countries currently.

I am a radical non-extremist and believe firmly that social changes should never be matters of whim or experiment or guesswork. Indeed, I believe firmly in 'If it ain't broke - don't try to fix it!'

In many ways I should be seen as a Gladstonian Liberal, I suppose.

I have libertarian tendencies but would also try to draw moral lines in the sand.

I believe in local democracy and oppose political centralisation. I am a strong pragmatist.

I do not believe in waste, unnecessary pollutants and the mindless destruction of our rural heritage which gives me something of a green tinge.

I believe in the Rule of Law and sensible and traditional civil rights which prevent the possibility of governmental excesses.

I am a monarchist - albeit a rather lukewarm supporter.

I am a patriot but one who accepts that my country can be wrong. I have no imperialistic leanings.

I despise 'rule by bureaucrat' and believe in the UK as an autonomous nation. I emphatically do not believe in serving up our birthright to other powers.

Underpinning all of this is my evangelical starting point.

The Prodigal Son.

Turning to the Parable of the Prodigal Son, there are parts which can be neglected.

The story is usually used to illustrate the forgiveness on offer by the Father - and rightly so.

[We must try get past the question of "Who was not pleased to see the prodigal's return?" - The fatted calf.]

Never forget however, that the attitude of the brother is key. The poor attitudes that we embrace in life are represented in him. We are adjured to emulate the father and not the mardy brother.

Blu-tack.

'Do you realise how dangerous Blu-Tack is? I must admit that I didn't! That is I didn't know of its dangers, until I read in a survey of teachers that some unnamed teacher .... at an unnamed school told staff and children to wear goggles when handling Blu-Tack. Why are people like this allowed anywhere near children?'

A LoonyyTuneswatch coconut is hereby awarded to these doyens of common sense
- should they dare to make themselves known!

Wrested from 'Nanny Knows Best' - with thanks.

A Green paragon.

Daniel Cohn-Bendit currently co-president of the group European Greens–European Free Alliance in the European Parliament has in the past been accused of paedophile behaviour.
I could not possibly comment but will merely draw readers' attention to this in his own 1975 book Le Grand Bazar from whence arose the accusations:

"On several occasions certain kids would open my fly and start to stroke me. I reacted differently according to circumstances, but their desire posed a problem for me. I asked them: 'Why don't you play together? Why have you chosen me, and not the other kids?' But if they insisted, I caressed them still."

Herr Bendit, formerly known under the soubriquet of Danny the Red was also a noted marxist.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Cohn-Bendit

Jacko.

It is more than difficult to believe that anybody else without the benefit of being able to employ millionaire lawyers would have gained acquittal on child abuse charges where the evidence was damning.

Coming from a cult background - and as late as November, flirting with Islam - Michael Jackson died unexpectedly.

The old preachers used the phrase week on week, "You are not promised tomorrow".

At first glance - and it is certainly not for us to judge this with individuals - it appears that Jacko may well have died whilst still in need of finding the salvation that God the Son died to win for us.

That is probably the real tragedy of the star's death.

Dan Hannan.

The excellent Daniel Hannan MEP has claimed that 'Lord Mandelson is destroying Labour for the sake of the EU.'
Sorry Dan. This is not news!

Bias at the BBC.

"The BBC is not impartial or neutral. It's a publicly funded, urban organisation with an abnormally large number of young people, ethnic minorities and gay people. It has a liberal bias not so much a party-political bias. It is better expressed as a cultural liberal bias",
Andrew Marr
the Daily Mail, Oct 21st, 2006.

"It's not a conspiracy. It's visceral. They think they are on the middle ground",
Jeff Randall, former BBC Business Editor,

in The Observer, Jan 15th, 2006.

How are they so sure?

Labour has repeatedly, like a mantra, stated that the BNP successes earlier in the month resulted from low election turnouts.
How do they know that a larger turnout would not have produced even more BNP votes?

Real origins of climate change.

'Framed by a circle of clouds, this is a stunning illustration of Nature's powerful force. A plume of smoke, ash and steam soars five miles into the sky from an erupting volcano - and a very minor one. The extraordinary image was captured by the crew of the International Space Station 220 miles above a remote Russian island in the North Pacific.' I saw a well argued statistic several years ago which suggested that the pollution from all the vehicles in the world amounts to just 0.6% of all the rubbish spewed into the atmosphere.

[Some extremely dubious guesstimates, from some extremely dodgy sources, claim a full 30% which has the appearance of extreme exaggeration. It is my belief that these figures simply did not take into account the effect of volcanos as these are erratic by nature.]
Look at this picture and that lower claim seems considerably more believable!

LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1195215/Stunning-pictures-hole-clouds-astronauts-witness-volcano-eruption-International-Space-Station.html

Oops. Wrong again!

'Dinosaurs may not have been as monstrously big as scientists and Hollywood film directors would have us believe. Scientists now believe the original method used to calculate dinosaur mass was flawed. As a result of the mistake, some dinosaurs may have been oversized, it is claimed.
'Palaeontologists have for 25 years used a published statistical model to estimate body weight of giant dinosaurs and other extraordinarily large animals in extinct lineages,' said lead researcher Dr Gary Packard from Colorado State University in the US.
'By re-examining data in the original reference sample, we show that the statistical model is seriously flawed and that the giant dinosaurs probably were only about half as heavy as is generally believed.'

Evolutionary paleontologists are always to be implicitly trusted. I get fed up with it all but must admit to a certain schadenfreude every time one of their houses of cards crumples and disintegrates - which occurs repeatedly!

LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1194519/Tiny-rannosaurus-Rex-dinosaurs-big-Hollywood-films-suggest.html

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Coursework.

I was one of three teachers last night in discussion about coursework in GCSE exams and the reaction was heavily negative.
This is unsurprising when you realise just how much dishonesty, Internet cheating and parental assistance goes into the submitted work.
We are told that in future, coursework will have to be done in school - and - wait for it - supervised!
The trouble is that students will be allowed to bring in their NOTES - so just what will have been gained?
With the exception of subjects such as Art and various craft areas, coursework is not even theoretically advisable.
I did a four year university course in Spanish. Years One and Four were examined, Years Two and Three were continuous assessment. When facing exams I had to do all the work and thoroughly. When assessed, all I had to do was to major on the items I was tested on and could safely ignore the rest.
When examined, I had to revise like crazy; when assessed, I had nothing to do at the end of the year.

As a teacher of RS, I am delighted to report that this iniquitous way of testing pupils has been scrapped in my subject, at least.
I am also chuffed that me being used as an unpaid worker for the exam boards for a week every year has gone with it!

Wilkerson right or wrong?

In 1973, Dave Wilkerson claimed to have received a vision regarding the future of the United States and subsequently gave a sermon on the vision and published a book called The Vision. Wilkerson believed that God had revealed to him a great calamity which was going to befall America due to increase in sins such as homosexuality, sexual promiscuity, and greed.
Some of the details of this 1973 vision were:
"Worldwide recession caused by economic confusion"
"At most a few more fat flourishing years, and then an economic recession that's going to affect the life style of every wage-earner in the world. The world economists are going to be at loss to explain what's happening. It's going to start in Europe, spread to Japan and finally to the United States."
There will be a move toward a worldwide, unified monetary system. The US dollar will be hit bad and it will take years for it to recover.
The only real security will be in real estate (until a somewhat later stage, at which point this apparent security will also disappear).
"Nature having labor pains"
Environmentalists will come under heavy criticism.
There will be major earthquakes.
There will be a major famine.
Floods, hurricanes and tornadoes will increase in frequency.
"A new kind of cosmic storm appearing as a raging fire in the sky leaving a kind of vapor trail."[
"A flood of filth and a baptism of dirt in America"
Topless women will appear on television, followed by full nudity.
Adult, X rated movies will be shown on cable television. Young people will gather at homes to watch this kind of material in groups.
Sex and the occult will be mixed.
There will be an acceptance of homosexuality, and the church will even say that it is a God-given gift.
"Rebellion in the home"
"I see the new number one youth problem in America and the world as hatred towards parents."
"A persecution madness against truly Spirit filled Christians who love Jesus Christ"
There will arise a world church consisting of a union between liberal ecumenical Protestants and the Roman Catholic Church, using Christ in name only.
There will be a hate Christ movement.
There will be a spiritual awakening behind the Iron and Bamboo Curtains.
Others
There will be another wave of riots.
There will be a fall in moral conduct.
There will be a new drug that will be popular with teenagers that will break down resistance and will encourage sexual activity.
Homosexual and lesbian ministers will be ordained and this will be heralded as a new breed of pioneer.
There will be nude dancing in church, but this will never be widespread.
There will be occult practices in churches.

In the words of John McEnroe .....

'A prototype cow which burps less is being bred in a breakthrough that could reduce a big source of the greenhouse gases responsible for global warming.'

Are they serious? How many flatulent bovines does it take to equal one minor volcano every decade or so, I wonder?
Science gone bonkers!
Stephen Moore, a professor at the University of Alberta in Canada - I reckon that you merit a LoonytunesWatch coconut!

Have we been sold another 'scientific' pup?

'Those of us carrying around a few extra pounds should take heart - the slightly overweight seem to live longer than those of 'healthy' weight. Contrary to the much publicised message that you must be slim to be healthy, a study also found that those classed as obese fare no worse than those of normal weight. Researchers said it was clear that a person's weight was not the be all and end all of good health. Researcher Mark Feeny, of Kaiser Permanente Northwest Centre for Health Research in Oregon, said: 'It's not surprising that extreme underweight and extreme obesity increase the risk of dying but it is surprising that carrying a little extra weight may give people a longevity advantage.' During the period studied, the underweight were 70 per cent more likely to have died than those of normal weight, followed by the extremely obese. However, the obese lived roughly as long as those of normal weight.'

This is interesting. It has been my life experience that the vast majority of people I have known who have had heart attacks have been very slight in build - followed not too closely by those who are significantly overweight.

This is not an excuse for an overweight me! I am trying seriously to shed thirty pounds or so! Congratulations to Slimmers World - I am actually able to follow their regime as I am seldom hungry on it and will soon be entering my second month.

LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1195380/Do-want-live-longer-Then-weight.html

Gloucester crime levels plummet.

'A county's crime rate fell to a 20-year low after a notorious criminal family was jailed, police revealed yesterday. The Johnson family was a ruthless gang of travellers who carried out countless crimes over two decades, from cash machine raids to sheet metal thefts'

Naturally, we are NOT permitted to extrapolate from this in any way.

LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1195205/Conviction-travelling-family-reduces-crime-rate-county-20-year-low.html

Mother Mary.

I had a conversation last night which reminded me just why I am a Protestant and could never join the Roman Church under any circumstances.

I might not fall out too greatly over transubstantiation, as although I believe this to be fundamentally wrong, it has at least arisen from a literalist interpretation of the Scriptures which I can respect.

Papal infallibility is a non starter; the 'creation of saints' is a non-runner - indeed I am a saint by biblical definition!

Interceding for the dead is wrong as is the over attention to relics and calling the priest 'Father' which is anti-scriptural.

But above all of these things, it is the mariolatry which offends me most.

The fictions about Mary abound.

She did not remain a virgin as at least 6 other childbirths prove and had she done so, her unconsummated marriage with Joseph would not have been a marriage at all - even in the eyes of the Roman Church!

She was not 'assumed into heaven', the Scriptures do not tell us to pray to dead people - quite the contrary - she 'does not intercede with her Son for us' - we as believers have a direct line to the Godhead and most emphatically she does NOT perform miracles or answer prayers!

Any miracles done in her name which receive a response - well - that response will have come from somewhere quite different altogether!

I am also offended by the expression 'Mary Mother of God' which gives an erroneous emphasis; is bordering blasphemy and misses the point. The fact that Jesus is God the Son and that she was His mother is the correct emphasis.

LINK: http://www.ianpaisley.org/article.asp?rome_mary.htm

It could actually be true!

There's a sign in our local shop that says: 'Only 2 MPs at a time'

Double blank?

'Residents have threatened to boycott a Domino's Pizza - after it took pork off its menu and now only offers halal food. Customers in Blackburn are angry that the managers of the store - which is located in a heavily populated Asian area - made the move in a bid to attract more Muslim clients.'

Looks like I would now be boycotting Dominos also were it not for my current diet which prevents me from using them in any case.

Link: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1195152/Anger-second-Dominos-pizza-store-takes-pork-menu-halal-only.html

A good point.

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

- Charles De Gaulle

I wonder what is causing it all?

'Inspectors found that some primaries had suspended the same children more than ten times in a year. Schools reported youngsters biting, persistent disobedience, swearing, running away from staff, kicking or hitting staff, throwing chairs and climbing over the school fence.'
Funny how that never happened when I was at school - but obviously the fact that we would have been slippered or perhaps caned can have no bearing whatsoever on anything.
It must be something totally different. No. It really must be - coz if not it would mean that all the do-gooders have been 100% wrong - so it couldn't be that.
Hmm. Tricky.

Now, tongue firmly out of cheek - just how do the schools repair the damage done by appalling parenting?

LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1195094/Primary-schools-use-calming-tents-cut-expulsions-schools-told.html

A helpful word origin - maybe.

'Politics' - 'Poli' in Latin meaning 'many' and 'tics' meaning 'blood sucking creatures'.

The difference between then and now.

"The great social reformers of the Victorian era knew that the alleviation of poverty was a religious and moral crusade; today's equivalent activists have systematically refused to acknowledge that holding people responsible for the consequences of their own actions lies at the heart of any effective anti-poverty programme."

Melanie Phillips.

Probably true!

How many MPs does it take to change a lightbulb?

Two; One to submit the receipt, and one to try and figure out why John Lewis have actually delivered a 42-inch plasma TV.

Halal.

'The Farm and Animal Welfare Council said that slitting animals’ throats for kosher and halal meat was likely to be painful because the animal is conscious for at least 20 seconds as they bleed to death.
In a report by Fawc and leading veterinary experts, it recommends the Government begin talks with Jewish and Muslim communities to ensure animals are stunned first.'

LINK: http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/109297/-End-cruel-slaughter-of-animals-for-meat

Just how can this surprise us? The restrictions on foxhunting were put in place at breakneck speed for an activity which was trivial in comparison to all this.

Oh dear. Sensitivities of minority groups have been more important than the brutalisation of animals.

This is easily resolved by imposing legislation WHICH WILL BE ENFORCED that kosher and halal animals must be pre-stunned.

It is my understanding that there is nothing in either the OT or the Koran which precludes this.

People would still have a choice.

The alternative would be that members of these groups could become vegetarian.

True wisdom!

Politicians and nappies have one thing in common.
They should both be changed regularly - and for the same reason.

Yorkshire Post yesterday.

Lincoln's words of wisdom From: P Lambert, Ilkley.

I THINK our politicians would do well to study a speech by Abraham Lincoln: "You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong."You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by encouraging class hatred."You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn. You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves." Written and spoken in the 19th century – much is still appropriate.

Why are so many of the truly great politicians from the past?

My lips are sealed.

This leaflet is apparently offensive and desperately needed Police intervention!

'A five-strong team of police officers investigated a church's literature because someone said a leaflet inviting the public to an Easter service was 'offensive. Two mounted policemen were later joined by three armour-clad officers who jumped out of a police van to examine the Easter invitation leaflet.After the police found no evidence that the leaflet was offensive, the individual making the complaint changed his claim.He told police he found it offensive that an evangelical church was allowed to advertise itself on the high street in a region which had a sizeable gay community.'

Thanks for the information to The Christian Institute.