An anonymous letter.

I had a letter published in the Yorkshire Post this week, again informing the readership of the carnage caused to songbirds by the astonishing proliferation in the egregious magpie population.
Naturally, our soft left council in Sheffield is allowing this to happen unchecked as you 'must not kill the nice birdies - they have as much right to live as you or me!' Inevitably they will NOT consider the damage done as this is a 'principle'! I wonder how the nestlings being torn apart feel about killing magpies?
In other words, 'Sod the songbirds - they don't matter!' It is so reminiscent of the arguments used against the death penalty. Such people never care how many hundreds - or now, thousands of extra murder victims - die from their policies. Just so long as they ensure that tough decisions are never taken and they can forget the slaughtered and may comfort themselves with the thought that 'an innocent victim every decade or so will never hang'.
Today, I received a letter from a user of larsen traps based on my contribution. He claims to have rescued the songbirds in his area by killing an average of one magpie each and every week.
He was LITERALLY too frightened to let me - somebody on his side - even know his name.
When I approached a pest control officer last year, he told me that some people are threatening to attack pest controllers for killing rats!

I really do despair. A society this soft and stupid is surely doomed.

Dr Tekleab Menghisteab.

Please pray for Orthodox Pastor Dr Tekleab Menghisteab who has been brutally treated for his faith in Eritrea.
He has been imprisoned and his plight is brought to us by Gospel singer Helen Berhane who has finally been able to claim asylum in Denmark after 2 years of appalling treatment in Eritrean prisons where at least 2,000 other Christians are incarcerated for their faith. The prayerful campign for her release has been honoured by God.
Remember those who remain!
Incidentally, how different! An asylum-seeker who is 100% genuine!

Such people are indeed welcome.

LINK: http://www.releaseinternational.org/pages/country-profiles/eritrea.php

Dinosaurs are still here.

Had you ever noticed that, in order to to get a proper perspective in this day and age, it is frequently necessary to be able to 'think outside the box'.
We are told what that 'box' is and most people simply remain within its confines.
Take dinosaurs. They died out 60 million years ago - or whatever the absurd figure is this week, if we listen to the pseudo-scientific prattle.
But did they? They may not be as impressive in number and size as the fossil record reveals but they are still here.
Caimans, alligators, geckos, crocodiles, lizards, turtles, tortoises, newts and komodo dragons - what do you think all of these things actually are? Why all the excitement hunting for 'Nessie'?

Crocs continue growing throughout their entire lives. So in any antediluvian world - possibly with a full greenhouse effect facilitating perfect growing conditions, their sheer size is less an issue but rather it is the ages achieved.
If you follow the link you will find a list of 80 places throughout the UK where local 'legends' describe dinosaur activity in recent history and by this I do mean the ones supposedly extinct millions of years ago.
Bill Cooper, whose excellent 'After the Flood' brings us this information has, naturally, been vilified by the evolutionary establishment. Cooper's work is a tedious read [Why oh why couldn't he have learned a more interesting writing style?]
But he also demonstrates how British historians Nennius and Geoffrey of Monmouth are also treated with establishment disdain because they do not fit the established pattern. Their vastly important historical works are reviewed on this Blog - use the search engine.

LINK: http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/nation09.htm

Moussawi.

Just point out to me any government in the world which would be prepared to let a man of violence enter their country and go on a lecture tour.
Well it happens here.
No doubt this man's 'human rights' would be in question were he to be told to sling his hook.

"The Home Secretary came under fire last night for allowing a radical Lebanese propagandist with links to the extremist group Hezbollah to enter Britain for a national speaking tour.
The Conservatives urged Jacqui Smith to ban Ibrahim Moussawi from the UK, warning that he was "likely to foment extremism or promote violence".
Mr Moussawi edits Hezbollah's newspaper and is former political editor of the Iranian-backed group's television station, which is banned in many countries including France, Spain and the U.S. where its output is seen as anti-Semitic."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=521448&in_page_id=1770

Mr Klein.

The white working classes feel "politically alienated" and frightened to speak out, a senior BBC executive has claimed.
Richard Klein said poorer whites believe they are "threatened economically and stifled socially" and that they no longer have a voice.
Mr Klein, the corporation's commissioning editor for documentaries, has courted controversy before.
He previously admitted that the political correctness the BBC is frequently accused of is at odds with many of its viewers.

The BNP welcome mat is outside the front door!

LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=518641&in_page_id=1773

Loony Beeb.

If you had the choice of saving jobs or being politically correct - which would you choose? - I thought so. [1,500 jobs are to be lost in order to cut costs.]

Not the BBC, however!





" The BBC has sparked controversy by spending £750,000 of licence fee cash on coaching ethnic minority staff into top jobs.
Corporation chiefs have launched a new drive to help minority employees get senior posts after it failed to hit its own diversity targets.
But the new mentoring scheme has been condemned as "politically correct" positive discrimination which will create resentment amongst staff. "









http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=519808&in_page_id=1770

Drug strategy?

"Drug addicts will today be threatened with losing their benefits unless they try to get clean."

Have you ever heard of 'the law of unintended consequences'?
It usually kicks in whenever 'joined-up thinking' is absent!

'Defending the indefensible'? - Let Tom Bower explain.

As usual the Left is utterly wrong. This isn't about class, but simple corruption. By TOM BOWER

"Reckless and extravagant, the Labour Party's gravy train has enriched so many of its supporters in Westminster and beyond that many of its politicians appear to have lost touch with reality.
The outrage of the Labour MPs defending the inflated expenses pocketed by Michael Martin, the Speaker of the House of Commons, is simply shocking to outsiders.
Instead of seriously considering the charges against Martin - the misuse of his second home allowance for a property that has no mortgage, the doling out of official air miles to his family, not to mention his wife's £4,000 taxi expenses for casual shopping trips - many Labour MPs are falling back on that old favourite: they have declared war against the champions of integrity by resorting to old-fashioned class politics.
Rather than consider the notion that Speaker Martin's conduct might at best be questionable and at worst indefensible, those who defend him claim that criticism of him is an assault against the working class - and the Scottish working class at that! "

LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=518667&in_page_id=1770

Don't know what to do with your money?

Don't know what to do with your money? - Why not support Handsworth Christian School in Sheffield?
The staff all work sacrificially to offer a Christian education at a fraction of the fees of most independent schools so as to be open to working class and lower middle class pupils - unlike mainstream, independent education.
The school tries both to feed the Christian community as well as acting as an outreach into other religions and to those families with no faith base.
It costs about £800k annually to run a school of this type. It receives less than £350k through fees and donations.
God makes the impossible happen.
Ring Renee [Secretary] on 01142 430276 during school hours if you want to know how to give and details on Gift Aid.
The school is a registered charity.

Fidel - good riddance!

The Fidel Castro supporters have emerged from the woodwork. Letters Pages are full to the brim with support for 'the great man'.
Those who have visited Cuba rave over all the marvels they have seen.
It is like the days when the old style communist regimes put up tourists in the best hotels and led them to believe that what they showed them was typical.
Let's get real - he was an odious dictator of the very worst kind.
What should be a wealthy country is only one step up from being a third world nation.
I have had sufficient contacts with Cuba - albeit indirectly - over the years to realise that Cuba is no different. Behind the facade, the cuban society stinks - literally!
One friend of mine recently praised Castro after a visit to Cuba, but then, he is an active Lib Dem.

Open Doors.

I should like to bring to your attention the worthy charity, Open Doors, of which the now aging but renowned, Brother Andrew, is a leading light.
Brother Andrew and this charity specialise in smuggling Bibles into atheistic, marxist or islamic nations where the Bible is forbidden.
Yesterday I heard an excellent presentation from one of their team. Truly fascinating stuff.

Information:
http://www.opendoorsuk.org/

Agape.

'Agape', the Greek word, is defined as "divine, unconditional, self-sacrificing, active, volitional, and thoughtful love".
This is that love which God the Father demonstrated to us by sending His Son and the self same love which kept God the Son on the cross at Calvary.
The word 'love' today has become debased and devalued yet it is still meant to engage us.
'Love' today is a word of no real significance; it reflects pappy romance or seedy sexual encounters; it is a word derived from a sentimentalist world view and is both fleeting and impermanent.
Being 'in love' is little more than a feeling or a shaking up of hormones - little wonder that one marriage in three will end in divorce.
Does 'love' today ever represent sacrifice or dedication or must it always be transient?
The important thing is that 'love' is still recognised as vital yet people do not understand its true nature; they prefer a poor copy. Unlike what the Beatles sang - 'All you Need is Love' - a spiritual base is required or love gets lost in the translation.I shudder to think of the adulteries, the crimes and the many betrayals which have been perpetrated in the name of 'love'. Even the stories about the Trojan War are a simple, bad example.
In the TV series 'Becker', the restaurant owner, Reggie, receives a soppy Valentine Bunny from her boyfriend emblazoned with "I wuv you".
Her response was - "He doesn't even know what 'wuv' is."
Quite.

Woy.

Apart from out and out criminals, the only people I have utterly despised in my life have been politicians - in particular, those whose liberal idealism has caused inestimable damage to the world in which we live.
As high as any on my 'list of scorn' has been that egregious, oily, champagne-socialist, Roy Jenkins.
Until the present batch of incompetents at least, he was the worst Home Secretary ever.
This was also a man more than willing to sell out this nation to Brussels and who gained his venal reward by becoming President of The European Commission.
This was that wretched man who said "If anybody does not want to work in a modern society - they shouldn't have to."
This is the man who said "The permissive society is the civilised society."
'Woy' was an unctuous and brilliant intellectual but with no sense of 'real people' and their hopes and aspirations.
He was a co-founder of the SDP, a party which evolved into the Lib Dems of today - a group which is far and away the worst of today's three major parties.
The damage he left in his smug, self-satisfied wake may never be calculated.

Fairtrade - does it work?

Fairtrade 'does more harm than good to Third World countries', says think tank, The Adam Smith Institute; a body which rejects 'right-on thinking' and embraces pragmatism and realism.
It is with a heavy heart that I reproduce this information. This is not the first time that I have drawn readers' attention to this possibility.
We cannot now sit back and just assume that we are doing 'the right thing so it must be alright'.
That is precisely the same thinking which meant that countless charities did more harm than good for decades until they stopped, took stock and asked all the difficult questions.
Disturbing, isn't it?
The article below is most convincing. Sadly, I believe it to be correct. Investigations MUST now be made. So much good work by caring people throughout the country must not be in vain.

LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=517823&in_page_id=1811

Good idea? - Bad idea?

If you had never believed me before when I told you how this government is beyond idiocy, look at this!
"A Government-funded scheme is canvassing the thoughts of children under five and even babies about how council services can be improved."
But on second thoughts, perhaps there would be a tad more common sense than we get at the moment if we were to swap a random group of infants with the current government and most councils.
It is not often that my opinion changes right in the middle of the piece I am writing but suddenly, I am unsure.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=517856&in_page_id=1770

Persecution!

Well. Have Christians Eunice & Owen Johns from Derby been prevented from fostering because they dare to believe The Bible's teaching on homosexuality? - They certainly believe so.
I wonder if practising muslims are asked the same questions?
What do YOU think? Have you ever heard of a muslim family persecuted in this way? Don't you think that you would have done if it had ever happened?



LINK: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/23/nchurch223.xml

Thomas H Cook.

Thomas H Cook is a gloomy so-and-so, as well as being a tremendous fiction writer. He is right up there in the laughter stakes amongst the likes of Thomas Hardy and Franz Kafka.

Nonetheless, I rather liked this quote:

"Fear: the servant on which evil could most confidently rely."

Is there any message in there for the Christian Church, I wonder?

- Rowan? Rowan?

Socialism is doomed to fail.

Remember.
The principal reason socialism can never succeed is because it disincentivises the entire population.
Secondly, it takes a positive view of the nature of mankind.
The Bible's attitude is far more accurate - it points out that Man is fundamentally sinful.
Thirdly - if you want the evidence, read "this Just Cannot Go On" posted on the 8th of February.

Educational claptrap.

Please read this:
A GOVERNMENT-FUNDED report that says grammar schools should be scrapped in the interests of greater equality in education also advocates the wider use of lotteries to allocate places in oversubscribed schools.
The report, from researchers at Sheffield Hallam University and the London-based National Centre for Social Research, goes on to claim that faith schools take more of their pupils from wealthier backgrounds than community schools. “We have seen that voluntary aided schools have socially segregated intakes.”
The report admits, however, that its data on segregation was supplied by Professor Anne West of the London School of Economics, and Rebecca Allen, a research student at the London Institute of Education, who gave a paper to the British Education Research Foundation last September, alleging that church schools in London educated fewer children from deprived families and ethnic minorities than comparable community schools.

NOW. Take out all the pap, prejudice, social engineering, politics-of-envy and sociological bunkum - now you may ask the very reasonable question.

What does ANY of this rubbish have to do with education?

The left have never stopped their meddlesome politicking for nearly 50 years.
Education is about having the opportunity to learn and you grasping what is offered. All this tinkering to achieve the never achievable - even heinous - "equality of outcome" is the purest of nonsense.

Weak 'A' Levels.

"Geography, sociology and media studies are some of those [ 'A' Levels] likely to be checked to ensure they are sufficiently challenging."
I had never suspected geography of being an easy option - but three hurrahs for the investigation of those dreadful con tricks, sociology and the appalling media studies!
Could they not also give psychology a quick once over too?

LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=517349&in_page_id=1770

The Sun is right!

Okay. There has to be a police investigation - of course there does but...
"A HERO shopkeeper who struggled with a robber was nicked on suspicion of murder after the thug was killed with his own knife.
Brave Tony Singh fought back when hooded Liam Kilroe, 25, ambushed him as he was about to drive home after a 13-hour day.
The career-villain pulled a knife on his petrified victim – but was impaled on it as he grappled with the terrified convenience store boss.
Kilroe, who has a history of violent armed robberies on shops, tried to flee the raid but collapsed and died in a pool of blood."

What is the betting that the hapless Mr Singh will face charges? For once, let us hope that the 'race card' works the right way around and Tony Singh has the authorities off his back at the earliest opportunity.

***Good news. It has been announced on the 25th February that Tony Singh will NOT face charges!
LINK: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article827978.ece

Aborting twins leads to suicide.

Apart from concealing the nature of the young life that they are about to butcher - abortion advice centres and clinics NEVER show films such as The Silent Scream - how could they? Would their 'patients' not suddenly recognise that their euphemistically labelled 'termination' was just a simple act of savagery? Would such places not then see business decline?
What of the tragedy of Emma Beck in Truro Hospital? Do clinics and advice centres warn that there can be psychological consequences for life - or sometimes life-ending? - Thought not.

Are these things mentioned in 'guilt-free' sex education lessons? - No?

- Well they ARE in the ones I deliver!


LINKS: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=517346&in_page_id=1770&ct=5

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/healthmain.html?in_article_id=517827&in_page_id=1774

Forgiveness is appropriate.

Well done to Christian Jim Duell for being able to forgive that evil killer, Steven Wright, for the murder of his daughter.
Of course, The Bible requires the individual to do just that.
The Bible has a rather different requirement for society, which is to execute justice and retribution.
Well. At least Jim got his part of the scriptural demands correct!





LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=517393&in_page_id=1770

University waste.

"Nearly a quarter of university students fail to complete their degree courses, it is claimed.
Despite an £800million scheme to curb the drop-out rate, it has remained virtually the same in the past five years, an influential committee of MPs warns "

I have long campaigned against this ridiculous policy of shoehorning the-not-very-talented into university courses. If you abandon that ridiculous way of disguising unemployment statistics for a year or two, you would have sufficient funds to return to the previously desirable system of grants for the deserving and standards would inevitably rise as a rather nice, supplementary benefit.





LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=516564&in_page_id=1770&in_a_source=





Okay. I admit that the cartoon is not strictly relevant - but it appealed to my sicko's sense of humour!

Russell.

Gradually, by selective breeding, the congenital differences between rulers and ruled will increase until they become almost different species. A revolt of the plebs would become as unthinkable as an organized insurrection of sheep against the practice of eating mutton.

- Bertrand Russell, The Impact of Science on Society.

I do not think that that excellent author Charles Murray would disagree!

Psalm 94 miracle.

Many years ago, I got into a massive argument at work with a young, female colleague. I had just remarked how abortion was morally wrong and she went for me loudly and by the jugular. I was quite taken aback and profoundly upset by her extreme manner.
I returned home after work and began to pray whereupon God put Psalm 94 into my troubled mind. This was a psalm with which I was totally unfamiliar. When I read this in the context of my day, I was astonished.
Please read the Psalm for yourself and you will understand.
In the next couple of months it became clear that the single lady concerned was pregnant. It is my firm belief that God had fomented that contretemps at precisely the time when she was in the middle of making up her mind whether or not to have an abortion.
We were never sufficiently close to discuss these matters but can you guess which keen photographer she invited to her house to take an album of photos of her delightful daughter a year later?

Global Warming in Greece.

GIGO.

Computer modelling has demonstrated the dire effects of 'global warming'.

One small problem is that the different programmes are all predicting different levels of dire-itude.
The reason for this is that no programmer has ALL of the relevant facts at his fingertips - that would be impossible as we simply cannot know what all the relevant factors are.

What has become clear is that the effects of the sun have been under-rated by these whiz kids.
For those not familiar with the computer term GIGO, it stands for Garbage In, Garbage Out.

Tesco wants to make even more money.

A spokesman for Tesco has confirmed a report in The Daily Telegraph that it now supported legislation to ensure "responsible" pricing of alcohol and alcohol promotions.

Hmm. A major supermarket wants ALL supermarkets to be obliged to charge more for alcohol.
No self-interest there, then.

No road for improvement.

I spend most of my time on this Blog griping. [Perhaps you had noticed.]


But after seeing non-stop excellent driving for a week whilst in Spain, I was really impressed when I returned home the other night and had to drive northwards on the M1 in dreadful conditions.


The driving standards were of the very highest; speeds were sensible and there was no tailgating.


I always try to give credit where due.

Misplaced pity?

I know that the TV licence is a silly, unnecessary, bureaucratic nonsense but .... I remember a poor, oldish lady in a TV licence court who evoked enormous pity and sympathy from the Bench.
Her financial condition was not good and our hearts went out to her. I really cannot remember clearly which of us it was - or even if it was the Legal Advisor - who suddenly pointed out that there were literally thousands of people in Sheffield in her condition - or indeed, much worse - who had made the effort to 'do the right thing' whilst she had not.
It puts matters into a proper perspective then, doesn't it?
If her punishment had been too light, then we would not have been being fair to all those others who had struggled to put away, what was for them, a costly £2 per week.

Mohammed [Al??] Fayed.

Does not seem like a nice person.

Has he ever heard a definition of the word "evidence", I wonder?

Back on the 20th.

No new additions until the 20th. This is a good time to have a browse through what is turning into quite an extensive archive.

Cross the floor, Frank!

"The blocking of Frank Field’s plans to implement radical welfare reform was one of the great wrong turnings of New Labour.
The man responsible for preventing Mr Field reshaping the welfare state to reward hard work and savings was Gordon Brown. Instead, Mr Brown put in place a complex network of means-tested benefits which had precisely the opposite effect."

Time to quit Labour Frank. You do not fit any more. UKIP likes sensible politicians. It really is the only place to go!



{Unmissable }LINK: http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/34655/Wrong-turning-on-welfare-reform-has-cost-us-dear

Entropy.

The Second Law of Thermodynamics - the idea that all systems are subject to entropy and will dissolve into ever more disordered states - is a major embarrassment to evolutionists. The claims of the evolutionist completely contradict this observable, scientific fact and therefore necessitate attempts to discredit Newton's work.
The attempts to date, have been lamentable and have the smack of desperation.
If you believe that creationists do not use the best scientific arguments, I contend that it is the reverse of the case; evolutionists put their 'scientific method' to one side as soon as evolution is brought up.
I strongly recommend this article by Dr Carl Wieland:

http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v3/i2/thermodynamics.asp

Well. Do you STILL believe the evolutionists' calculated canard that ANY statement by an evolutionary scientist = Truth, and any by Creationist scientists = a bunch of numpties?
The Phd holders and professors who are creationists are large in number but do represent a tiny minority - but when they have arguments as strong as those displayed on this Blog [use the SEARCH and archives to seek out all the others] - it is clear that the evolutionary hypothesis is starting to crumble and dissolve.

Moral decline moves on apace.

LONG-TERM cohabitation does not provide the stability of marriage, says the Mothers’ Union (MU), in response to the latest findings of the British Social Attitudes survey.
The survey, published last week, suggested that two-thirds (66 per cent) of people believed there was little difference socially between being married and living together. Seven in ten of those questioned thought there was nothing wrong with sex before marriage, compared with nearly five in ten (48 per cent) in 1984. Only about one in four (28 per cent) thought married couples made better parents than unmarried ones.

Link:
http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/content.asp?id=51160

Outcry.

There has been a major outcry over the words of a government minister:
Phil Woolas claimed that this ...[marriage between close relatives and in particular first cousins in Islamic communities ]...had caused a surge in birth defects in the UK.
The Environment Minister also suggested the issue was being ignored by Muslim leaders, declaring it was the "elephant in the room" which urgently needed to be addressed.
Outcry? Why? Was he wrong?
If he is right - yet again the politically correct have been doing their poisonous work.

Hair raising.

Please read the link and see why I am so troubled by the way our society is travelling!


LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=513460&in_page_id=1770

Disaster in the making.

The number of migrant workers in Britain has topped two million for the first time, official figures have revealed.
A 75 per cent increase in workers from abroad since 2001 has seen the total number of foreign-born employees rise by more than 850,000 in the last six years, while their British born counterparts dropped by 500,000 in the same period.

And that is just what we know about, of course.

LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=513549&in_page_id=1770

High taxation disaster.

The marxist/socialist idea of 'robbing the rich to give to the poor' [as mooted apparently by Robin Hood] is utterly facile. Let us leave aside the dubious morality of taking from - indeed robbing - somebody who has more than someone else and let's look at the reality.
Harold Wilson's government tried Supertax and this ran at an immoral 98 pence in the pound!
Unsurprisingly, the super rich chose not to pay this and instead moved their money abroad as well as undertaking serious DISinvestment in the UK. Today, this can be achieved much more simply in the computer age.
It is a fact of taxation - passed on personally to me by a taxation expert - that the higher the taxes are, the lower the amounts collected become.
An additional factor, is that the higher the taxation level, the more incentives you offer to 'the black economy' and 'cash-in-hand businesses' to cheat the rest of us.
New Labour has learned not to attack the wealthy, the entrepreneurs and the wealth creators whom we so desperately need as a nation.
Unfortunately,their being unwilling to restrict their absurd amounts of public spending, their support of bureaucracy and their love of the EU and quangos - the amounts of taxation required are astronomically high.
If the wealthy are cossetted - then it is the middle and working classes who are on PAYE who must make up the shortfall.
Welcome to the Mickey Mouse World of Gordon Brown economics. UKIP want to embrace the 'flat tax system' which would at least make taxation transparent and considerably fairer WITHOUT the disadvantages.

LINK: http://www.ukip.org/ukip/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=49&Itemid=41

The Prayer of St Francis.

Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace;

where there is hatred, let me sow love;

where there is injury, pardon;

where there is doubt, faith;

where there is despair, hope;

where there is darkness, light;

and where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master,

grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;

to be understood, as to understand;

to be loved, as to love;

for it is in giving that we receive,

it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,

and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life.

Amen.

LINK: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayer_of_Saint_Francis

Surtsey - again.

The volcanic island of Surtsey was 'created' in 1963 and Mnt St Helens erupted 17 years later.
In the aftermath of these two rather trivial events - at least in the context of what 'geological forces' produced the Himalayas and the Andes - whole eco systems were in place almost in a blink of time. Cliffs, gullies, beaches, landscape, FOSSILS were found .[I have only just found out about these 'ancient' fossils hence my decision to return to this topic.]
The colonisation of these areas of waste by lichens, plants and insects and not too far down the line, birds, was little less than amazing.
Yes I know that all the above-mentioned life forms were already in existence elsewhere - but forgive me if I am rather impressed by the speed of the developments on Surtsey and at Crater Lake. It almost makes you wonder if, just perhaps, aeons of time were not actually needed to explain Genesis away.These are far from being definitive arguments but most assuredly, are significant indicators.
And let us not forget the rocks created volcanically at Mnt St Helens were dated at millions of years using the highly flawed and untestable techniques of half lives - which depend entirely on rates of decay being a constant - which is unprovable and clues suggest is simply not true.
[ Potassium-Argon, Lead-Thorium etc.]

LINK: http://www.creationonthe%20web/surtsey
http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v21/i2/tuluman.asp

Left photo: Surtsey - right photo: Crater Lake below Mnt St Helens.

Oops. Wrong again!

It has been something of a major plank in the evolutionary hypothesis that 'dinosaurs could not have been graminivorous because grass had not evolved when dinos roamed the earth.'
Guess what? Dinosaur dung containing - you got it! - GRASS has been discovered.
I am only surprised that they hadn't tried to conceal the evidence in their customary fashion.
Oh, poo!
How can these people be categorically proven wrong on a non-stop basis and still retain any vestiges of credibility? - BEATS ME!

LINK: http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8336

The lessons of Kosovo.

"The Serbian government has received more and more significant information that Kosovo's prime minister Hashim Thaci will illegally declare the unilateral independence of Kosovo on February 17, Slobodan Samardzic, Serbia's minister for Kosovo was quoted as saying by press agencies on Friday (8 February)."

Whether proved true or not at this point, it is certainly the agenda. Even so, you may wonder why such a matter is relevant to a Blog of this particular hue?
Well. This is the final act in what appears to be 'invasion by immigration'. Today's Kosovars are 3rd and second generation immigrants from Albania - who have bred themselves into a majority and who now wish to claim as their own land, the nation which they have sequestered by stealth.
Surely there are no other european nations with a rapidly growing muslim minority with a huge birth rate? - Are there?

LINKS:
http://www.savekosovo.org/default.asp?p=4&leader=0&sp=327 http://euobserver.com/9/25629/?rk=1
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2004/01/26/do2601.xml
http://www.justchat.co.uk/boards/viewtopic.php?p=514801&sid=d4fff840ee231e926e4316500d049df5
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=452815&in_page_id=1770
http://saxonsawake.org.uk/Acrobat_Files/The-Muslim-Conquest-of-Britain.pdf
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1901775.ece

NOTE the EU interference! http://euobserver.com/9/25644/?rk=1

The wisdom of Lenin.

"A lie repeated often enough becomes the truth." Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov - rather better known, and more simply, as Lenin.

[And our politicians should know. Far too many people simply parrot their propaganda.]

LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=513234&in_page_id=1770

Beating a retreat?

I have it on impeccable authority that in many mosques where muslim children are taught about Islam, brutal beatings are inflicted for failure to learn adequately.
For violence, vandalism or wanton insolence - perhaps a caning - but 'brutal'? And for not learning?
These situations are well known to the authorities who as one, refuse to act on risible 'cultural grounds'.
The Bible advocates physical chastisement but never as far as I know, brutality.
So. If Christian schools unilaterally reintroduce caning, can we expect the authorities to turn a blind eye? - Of course not! - They would not be having to dodge the 'race card' and the 'islamophobic' card which are both so readily played.
In any case, don't Christian groups always tend to make a rather nice target?
I just adore double standards. They are precisely what justice today is built upon.

White? - Sorry, no chance.

23 year old Lance Corporal Ben Mayer, a Regimental Police Officer with the Royal Anglian Regiment, who has recently served in Afghastlystan, looks a perfect recruit for the Metropolitan Police but has not even been allowed the application pack as he has committed that most grievous of all sins - that of being born white.

If it don't say what you want - retranslate it!

CHURCH leaders in Norway have backed a proposal by the national Ombudsman for Children, Reidar Hjermann, that new translations of the Bible must avoid language that justifies corporal punishment.

Welcome to the world of The Watchtower Society and Jehovah's Witnesses. JWs of course, produced the New World translation to change all the bits in Holy Writ which contradicted their teachings.

These church leaders will one day be called to account!

LINK: http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/content.asp?id=51134

Destroyed: another plank of evolution.

The usual evolutionary story upset (summary) by Phil Bell.The most common ‘neat’ story of human evolution has australopithecines (such as ‘Lucy’) evolving into Homo habilis, which evolves into Homo erectus, which evolves into Homo sapiens. Australopithecines have no clear connection to humans, but museums, popular articles and text-books for schools and universities commonly claimed that Homo habilis linked them with humans (Homo erectus and Homo sapiens). While one camp of paleontologists argued that Homo habilis was not a valid taxon, being a waste bin of mixed ape and human fossil bits, other evolutionists clung to H. habilis as being valid. Now even those who still claim it was valid are putting it aside. That effectively leaves a gaping hole in the story of human evolution, with nothing left to link humans with apes.

Note how the picture represents the prejudice. It is the purest of guesswork! MANY such pictures exist and adorn school textbooks.

Read the full article: http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/5323/

Crime by foreign nationals.

There has been "....a series of warnings by chief constables that they do not have the resources to cope with a crimewave linked to foreign nationals - who are committing up to one in every five offences in one police force area."
I am pretty certain that we shall not be allowed to comment on this. That would be racist, don't you think?


LINKS: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=512728&in_page_id=1770&in_a_source=

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=512713&in_page_id=1770

*** Have just listened to a review of this newspaper article by a mega-leftie. All she did was to pour out scorn, bile and derision but as she was unable to challenge the factual base of the article, there was not one single fact used in her bigoted outburst. - Oh so typical!

11 February. The Daily Express reports that ' a foreign national is arrested every 4 minutes'.
Clearly, this man must be deported - he is a menace.

Place your bets.

An early, odds on favourite to succeed the catholic church's Cormack Murphy-O' Connor is the abbot of Pluscarden Abbey in Elgin.

Hugh Gilbert is a contemplative, traditionalist. Aged 55 - he is this Blog's 'hot tip'.

Christian Education.

I went to hear that excellent preacher, David Pawson, speak some 20 years ago and he attacked Christian education. He used the traditional Christian argument that children from Christian homes should be 'salt and light' to the children around them.
Having experienced the horrors of the comprehensive system [or was that APPprehensive?] I can declare with some authority that he was mistaken, and emphatically so. The Christian children are simply swamped and the overwhelming majority keep a very low profile in mainstream schools.
I am astonished that evangelicals can ever choose to place their children into the probable care of: bigots, atheists, agnostics, faith-destroyers, marxists and the certain influence of the morally neutral.
Their children - in order to be 'part of the real world' - are placed alongside the disfunctional, the criminal, the drug taker, the sexually precocious, the degenerate and the morally corrupt.
A huge percentage of their teachers are also very poor moral examples. Am I overstating my case? - Indeed not!
I would have stuck pins in my eyes rather than have my children educated thus - in the system which put bread on our table.
Apparently, the Spartans used to leave boy babies out on a mountainside, naked for a night, in the cold, to see if they were tough enough to be worthy of survival.
With no thoughts of nurture as an option, is that not precisely what Christian parents are doing when they choose the local comp in preference to a Christian School? - Provided of course, that they do have one in their area.

Photo: Handsworth Christian School, Sheffield.

Mutations = loss.

Mutations are oft quoted by evolutionists as the means by which evolution occurred.
Clearly, natural selection can only work on what is already present and so has long been recognised as a little bit of a blind alley in the evolutionary hypothesis.
NEW genetic information is essential to the process if the trillions of different changes interweaving across each and every life form on the planet have modified to the more complex from simpler organisms.
The sheer numbers of changes alone require immense amounts of faith.
However, when it is clear that all else has failed, evolutionist apologists turn to the idea that these changes MUST have taken place through mutations.
Unfortunately, these are almost always negative and damage the basic organism and in the few cases where there is a perceived advantage, it is only accidental and often as much of a negative as it is possible to be.
It has been weakly argued that sickle cell anaemia sufferers do not get malaria - and so the mutation has been advantageous. So you get a disease which may well kill you as a by-product which accidentally protects from malaria. Not really my definition of 'advantageous'.
The real argument though is even more damaging to the evolutionist - mutations never create new genetic material; they never add new information to the genome.
One might also ask just how mutations are meant to plan ahead? How does a system work 200, 100 or even 10 mutational stages ahead to plan for an eye, kidney etc. Every mutation must leave the organism working perfectly and worse, logically, at all times. When it does not, that faux ami to the evolutionist, natural selection, kicks in and weeds out the failure!
All changes work only within the finite, genetic parameters of the organism.

E Mailed comment: "Of course sickle-cell anaemia sufferers don't get malaria. The blood is so messed up that even the mosquitos won't touch it. That's what I was taught at university anyway..."


LINK: http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/wow/are-mutations-the-engine

Psalm 100.

Psalm 100.
A psalm. For giving thanks.
1. Shout for joy to the LORD, all the earth.

2. Worship the LORD with gladness; come before him with joyful songs.

3. Know that the LORD is God. It is he who made us, and we are his ; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.

4. Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name.

5. For the LORD is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations.

This just cannot go on!

"Six million Britons are living in homes where no one has a job and "benefits are a way of life", a report by MPs revealed yesterday. And they cost the taxpayer nearly £13 billion a year in state handouts. [Seems a pretty low estimate to me.]
This army of families on benefit - nearly one in six of all households in the country - has been untouched by a decade of Labour's attempts to get them into work, said the Public Accounts Committee. Four out of five of these homes have no one who is even looking for a job."

Repeat request.

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Bigotry.

I am certain that this must be most embarrassing to the fairminded people who do exist within sections of the mentioned groups but.....
Please remember that no leftwinger, feminist, atheist, marxist, socialist, liberal democrat, liberal christian, muslim [ - or indeed member of any other religions ] gypsy, tinker, traveller, asian, black, criminal, career benefit abuser, homosexual or person of mixed race may ever be deemed a bigot.
They all possess a 'Get-out-of-bigotry-free' card!
Should you foolishly criticise any member of any of these groups for however valid a reason, please be happy to guess precisely how you will be described.

The Maharishi Mahesh Yogi - obituary.

So, the old charlatan is no more. The cosmic con man is dead. The giggling guru has dropped off the perch. The venal mystic has departed this mortal coil.

He cared only for wisdom and nothing for the £600 million which he accidentally amassed.
The real and tragic, unanswered question is whether or not the old fraud had ever finally given himself a personal knowledge of the only Saviour, Our Lord Jesus Christ.





LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=512747&in_page_id=1773

Denmark.

I feel that I must let readers see this short but incredibly important article - the chances are astronomically high that they would never see it anywhere else.

SALUTE to Denmark... This could very well happen here on our Continent....Susan MacAllen is a contributing editor for (FamilySecurityMatters.org) Salute the Danish Flag - it's a Symbol of Western Freedom By Susan MacAllenIn 1978-9 I was living and studying in Denmark. But in 1978 - even in Copenhagen, one didn't see Muslim immigrants.
The Danish population embraced visitors, celebrated the exotic, went out of its way to protect each of its citizens. It was proud of its new brand of socialist liberalism one in development since the conservatives had lost power in 1929 - a system where no worker had to struggle to survive, where one ultimately could count upon the state as in, perhaps, no other western nation at the time. The rest of Europe saw the Scandinavians as free-thinking, progressive and infinitely generous in their welfare policies. Denmark boasted low crime rates, devotion to the environment, a superior educational system and a history of humanitarianism. Denmark was also most generous in its immigration policies - it offered the best welcome in Europe to the new immigrant: generous welfare payments from first arrival plus additional perks in transportation, housing and education. It was determined to set a world example for inclusiveness and multiculturalism.
How could it have predicted that one day in 2005 a series of political cartoons in a newspaper would spark violence that would leave dozens dead in the streets -all because its commitment to multiculturalism would come back to bite? By the 1990's the growing urban Muslim population was obvious - and its unwillingness to integrate into Danish society was obvious.
Years of immigrants had settled into Muslim-exclusive enclaves. As the Muslim leadership became more vocal about what they considered the decadence of Denmark's liberal way of life, the Danes - once so welcoming - began to feel slighted. Many Danes had begun to see Islam as incompatible with their long-standing values: belief in personal liberty and free speech, in equality for women, in tolerance for other ethnic groups, and a deep pride in Danish heritage and history.
The New York Post in 2002 ran an article by Daniel Pipes and Lars Hedegaard, in which they forecasted accurately that the growing immigrant problem in Denmark would explode. In the article they reported: "Muslim immigrants.constitute 5 percent of the population but consume upwards of 40 percent of the welfare spending."
"Muslims are only 4 percent of Denmark's 5.4 million people but make up a majority of the country's convicted rapists, an especially combustible issue given that practically all the female victims are non-Muslim. Similar, if lesser, disproportions are found in other crimes." "Over time, as Muslim immigrants increase in numbers, they wish less to mix with the indigenous population.
A recent survey finds that only 5 percent of young Muslim immigrants would readily marry a Dane."
"Forced marriages - promising a newborn daughter in Denmark to a male cousin in the home country, then compelling her to marry him, sometimes on pain of death - are one problem" "Muslim leaders openly declare their goal of introducing Islamic law once Denmark's Muslim population grows large enough - a not-that-remote prospect. If present trends persist, one sociologist estimates, every third inhabitant of Denmark in 40 years will be Muslim." It is easy to understand why a growing number of Danes would feel that Muslim immigrants show little respect for Danish values and laws.An example is the phenomenon common to other European countries and the U.S .: some Muslims in Denmark who opted to leave the Muslim faith have been murdered in the name of Islam, while others hide in fear for their lives.

Jews are also threatened and harassed openly by Muslim leaders in Denmark, a country where once Christian citizens worked to smuggle out nearly all of their 7,000 Jews by night to Sweden - before the Nazis could invade. I think of my Danish friend Elsa - who as a teenager had dreaded crossing the street to the bakery every morning under the eyes of occupying Nazi soldiers - and I wonder what she would say today. In 2001, Denmark elected the most conservative government in some 70 years - one that had some decidedly non-generous ideas about liberal unfettered immigration. Today Denmark has the strictest immigration policies in Europe. ( Its effort to protect itself has been met with accusations of "racism" by liberal media across Europe - even as other governments struggle to right the social problems wrought by years of too-lax immigration.) If you wish to become Danish, you must attend three years of language classes. You must pass a test on Denmark's history, culture, and a Danish language test.You must live in Denmark for 7 years before applying for citizenship. You must demonstrate an intent to work, and have a job waiting. If you wish to bring a spouse into Denmark, you must both be over 24 years of age, and you won't find it so easy anymore to move your friends and family to Denmark with you. You will not be allowed to build a mosque in Copenhagen. Although your children have a choice of some 30 Arabic culture and language schools in Denmark, they will be strongly encouraged to assimilate to Danish society in ways that past immigrants weren't. In 2006, the Danish minister for employment, Claus Hjort Frederiksen, spoke publicly of the burden of Muslim immigrants on the Danish welfare system, and it was horrifying: the government's welfare committee had calculated that if immigration from Third World countries were blocked, 75 percent of the cuts needed to sustain the huge welfare system in coming decades would be unnecessary.

In other words, the welfare system as it existed was being exploited by immigrants to the point of eventually bankrupting the government. "We are simply forced to adopt a new policy on immigration.
The calculations of the welfare committee are terrifying and show how unsuccessful the integration of immigrants has been up to now," he said. A large thorn in the side of Denmark's imams is the Minister of Immigration and Integration, Rikke Hvilshoj. She makes no bones about the new policy toward immigration, "The number of foreigners coming to the country makes a difference," Hvilshøj says, "There is an inverse correlation between how many come here and how well we can receive the foreigners that come."

And on Muslim immigrants needing to demonstrate a willingness to blend in, "In my view, Denmark should be a country with room for different cultures and religions. Some values, however, are more important than others. We refuse to question democracy, equal rights, and freedom of speech." Hvilshoj has paid a price for her show of backbone. Perhaps to test her resolve, the leading radical imam in Denmark, Ahmed Abdel Rahman Abu Laban, demanded that the government pay blood money to the family of a Muslim who was murdered in a suburb of Copenhagen, stating that the family's thirst for revenge could be thwarted for money.

When Hvilshoj dismissed his demand, he argued that in Muslim culture the payment of retribution money was common, to which Hvilshoj replied that what is done in a Muslim country is not necessarily what is done in Denmark.

The Muslim reply came soon after: her house was torched while she, her husband and children slept. All managed to escape unharmed, but she and her family were moved to a secret location and she and other ministers were assigned bodyguards for the first time - in a country where such murderous violence was once so scarce. Her government has slid to the right, and her borders have tightened. Many believe that what happens in the next decade will determine whether Denmark survives as a bastion of good living, humane thinking and social responsibility, or whether it becomes a nation at civil war with supporters of Sharia law. And meanwhile, Canadians clamor for stricter immigration policies, and demand an end to state welfare programs that allow many immigrants to live on the public dole.

As we in Canada look at the enclaves of Muslims amongst us, and see those who enter our shores too easily, dare live on our taxes, yet refuse to embrace our culture, respect our traditions, participate in our legal system, obey our laws, speak our language, appreciate our history . . we would do well to look to Denmark, and say a prayer for her future and for our own.. If you agree with this article, then please pass it on...