Possibilities do not include negotiation.

We always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative.

Golda Meir.

Alcohol abuse increases.

Damning figures show 6,495 Britons aged 18 to 40 were admitted to hospital suffering from alcoholic liver disease in 2006/07, compared to 2,967 a decade ago.

Hmm. Remind me. Who has been in power and what unthinking policies have brought this tragic situation about?

Mac the magnificent!

Orissa. Christmas relief in India as threat of violence passes

Dec 30 2008.
Christians in Orissa, India, have been breathing a sigh of relief after threats of Christmas violence failed to materialise. Militants want halt the growing numbers of India’s underclass who are converting to Christianity.

Apparently, militant hindus have been offering bounties for the killing of Christians.

Release International.

"There is no such thing as society."

The left have faced one Nemesis in the last 50 years in this country, Margaret Thatcher. She was often wrong on the small things but seldom on the large as she attempted, with a fair degree of success, to undo the damage done by generations of liberal left thinking against the backcloth of a society in almost as bad a state as ours is today.

The left have wilfully misquoted what she had to say about society by disingenuously removing it from its context.

'This quote is often taken out of context. She was talking about money and spending on good causes. What she really meant was "there is no such bank account as society". If you say "society should pay for... " what you actually mean is that people, via tax, should pay for... . It is unfair to take the exact phrasing of a sentence in an interview, not a pre-prepared speech, out of context.'

Anwerbag.

Politics - a definition.

'Politics' is made up of two words. 'Poli' which is Greek for 'many' and 'tics' which are bloodsucking insects.
Gore Vidal.

Wisdom of Redwood.

Visits to Mars by space probes have detected global warming there - but have not yet discovered the 4 X 4 s causing it!

John Redwood.

Teaching as a career? - Only if you are totally bonkers.

We are being regaled with information about how many teachers take time off for illness or stress.
I am delighted that the figures are as low as 15,000 a day.
Teaching is an incredibly difficult job at its most basic level and teachers need to be supported - but they are not and the situation is made worse by the twin fifth columns within the profession, the unions and the promotion seekers.
Remember that in the average school, all staff are achievers and most are capable of doing the top job - given time and experience.
Promotions are many in schools and are nauseatingly used to make staff work 20% harder to gain a salary increase of 5%.
School staff rooms can be like an overcrowded cage of rats with many jockeying for positions.
Some of the promotions can be quite absurd.What of the teacher on two promotions for filling the vending machine?

Others may be working themselves into the ground to achieve an extra grand a year.
Eventually, your promotion becomes more important to you than your teaching - which is, believe it or not, your real job!

In addition you are assailed with pointless meetings, bureaucracy, government interference, interference by so-called experts and decreasing numbers of the free periods needed to make the system flow.

Most will admit that their teaching becomes secondary to their promotion jobs.

It is all frustration, you are not trusted as a professional, you are treated like a recalcitrant child by OFSTED and the unknowing and terminally ignorant point out how well off you are for holidays and incredibly seem to believe that you work fewer hours annually than they do.

Children don't help. They are in a war of attrition with you - and that is just the nice kids.
There are plenty of others - disciplined only by you pretending to have authority - a bluff which is too often called!

Your self worth is constantly undermined.

I would not recommend this job to my worst enemy! I had 16 years full time in a reasonably good comp and a further 12 years working part time.
It made me ill - leaving was the best decision of my life.

David Lammy MP no Mastermind, he!

"According to David Lammy MP, Privy Councillor and Minister of State for Higher Education, there are still too many inequalities in the education system which prevents disadvantaged children from applying to study for a degree. British schooling is wholly responsible for the inequalities. A culture of low expectation and a lack of rigour holding these pupils back."

[His own education looks worryingly impressive - on paper, at least!]

Several points about his recent appearance on Celebrity Mastermind:
a] He was not very good; he knew very little and I scored more than he did on his specialist subject!
b] He was so poor that he was beaten into fourth place by an actor, a pop star and a 'hairy biker'.
c] Gordon Brown must have been severely embarrassed that one of his up-and-comers should have proved to be quite as ignorant as he was - and in public!
d] Apologies for the repetition, but this man is a MINISTER for HIGHER Education!
e] How did he dare to appear on the programme in the first place? - Hubris?

To be fair, he did seem a nice enough chap but I really do want my rulers to be a little brighter - please.
What surprises me is that I am surprised!

PS Dave, - a word to the wise, the 'inequalities' you mention have happened because of YOUR party's education policies and hatred of excellence.

The reality behind leftwing politics.

"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false face for the urge to rule it!"

HL Mencken.

Does the EU ever get it right?

The European Union has expressed its "grave concern" at Israel's continuing attacks on the Gaza Strip that have killed close to 300 Palestinians and injured around 900, and called the airstrikes "unacceptable" while calling on both sides to halt military actions.

Certainly, the deaths of so many people are profoundly tragic.
But just how many daily rocket attacks must Israel endure before it is permitted to respond by the EU?
Imagine if Ireland had launched over 400 attacks on west coast towns this year - bombarding them with rockets. Would we not be driven to respond?
And Irish arguments that Britain caused the potato famine in the 1840s would not really be good enough reason for them to assault us, in my view!
Never forget. Most Palestinians are committed to the absolute removal of the Jewish State; they will not negotiate in a straight manner and surrounding nations have treacherously invaded Israel on FOUR occasions since 1948.

The Israelis are reactive and if left alone do not attack Palestinians.

That Israel deals less than evenhandedly with the Palestinians is quite true and not altogether unsurprising under the circumstances.

The new, leftwing, anti-semitism is much evidenced amongst the liberal politicians of the world.

How long to make a fossil?.

Remember when you were at school? Remember how they told you that fossils take millions of years to produce? - Well, it is simply untrue.

They can be produced in months! I recently held a fossilised teddy bear which had been subjected to the right natural conditions and there it was!

This photo is of a hat taken from a mine in Tasmania which had been closed for 50 years - a bit longer than the teddy but still not quite millions, eh?

Today, I visited an evolutionist's website - a blog - which dealt with this issue.

It produced anger, bile, venom, bitterness and mockery of a fossilised Ted.

Sadly, it forgot to repudiate the point with any facts whatsoever.

Difficult to see how else their point might have been made of course - the facts were rather against the writer.

Fire!!

So your house is on fire and the fire brigade has been called out.

You will undoubtedly be delighted to hear that soon a fully politically correct fire crew will be heading towards your house. Okay, they may not be as strong and effective as previous crews but heck - what do you care? Alleged equality is far more important to you and yours - well, isn't it?

'Fire chiefs will have to put at least one woman on each fire engine to meet diversity guidelines.
New targets say that at least 15 per cent of those in operational roles should be female.
That means they will fill one of the five or six places for crew on each engine.
Officials at the Local Government Association, which is pressing the quotas on fire authorities, said that an increased number of women firemen is necessary 'to meet the needs of local people'.

LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1102359/A-woman-engine---latest-demand-PC-brigade.html

Think about it!

"Never trust anybody whose job was created after 1990."
Anon.

Visiting professor.

Not so many years ago, a leading professor of genetics came to deliver a major lecture to students new to the study of genetics in a university not a million miles from where I am now sitting.
My spies inform me that he opened with something close to these words, "Those of you who are seeking to prove evolution through the study of this subject are doomed to disappointment."

Verminous behaviour - but are we surprised?

'A care home where elderly Christian residents [including a number of retired missionaries] refused to answer ‘intrusive’ questions about their sexuality is at the centre of a bitter legal battle after its council grant was axed.
Brighton & Hove Council told the home to ask pensioners four times a year about their sexual orientation under its ‘fair access and diversity’ policies, which stem from New Labour equality laws.
Council chiefs also accused the charity that runs the home of ‘institutional discrimination’, before cutting a £13,000 grant towards warden services.'

LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1102206/Home-retired-missionaries-loses-grant--wont-ask-residents-lesbians.html

Jarndyce versus Jarndyce.

After recently mentioning the 'circumlocution office', I thought that this a good point to raise the issue of the great legal case in Dickens' 'Bleak House'.

The overwhelmingly brilliant 'Jarndyce v Jarndyce' is the utterly nonsensical case in Chancery which is a dominant thread throughout this lengthy volume. It ruins lives, eats fortunes, is beyond pointless and feeds the pockets of lawyers.

I really think that Dickens was born into the wrong century.

Vatican summary of the conflict.

"Hamas is a prisoner to a logic of hate; Israel to a logic of faith in force as the best response to hate."

Darwinism is a religion - a belief system.

Take one chihuahua, one West Highland terrier, one border collie, one rottweiler and one Irish wolfhound or Great Dane.

Fossilize and wait for several million years before sending for a passing darwinian evolutionist.

Sit back and watch how the explanations will tell you emphatically how these creatures 'evolved' one into another over vast periods of time and utterly ignoring the disregarded facts that:

a] The animals are 100% contemporary and

b] Any changes are merely within their genetic parameters.

Evolutionism is grotesquely simplistic, you see - as well as being most UNscientific.

[Under no circumstances should you include any dachsunds in your experimenting as this would be just too cruel to future evolutionists!]

A great plan but please be realistic.

CONVICTS are to get one-to-one help to put their lives back together and save taxpayers' cash.
Criminals jailed for up to 12 months will get a mentor after their release to help them get a job and stay out of trouble.
In Humberside, more than half of all crimes committed are carried out by ex-offenders and last year, £23.5 million was spent on reoffending in North Lincolnshire.
Now, a £350,000 scheme – the first of its kind in the country – will help released prisoners quit drink or drugs and find a home and a job.
Developed by Hull-based Goodwin Development Trust, the mentors are for ex-offenders who have served less than 12 months.

Just the one problem - the offenders must WANT to change and most serial offenders are quite content with their lifestyle choices.

My suggestion to the authors of this worthy scheme is to be ruthlessly selective - otherwise considerable amounts of time, effort and money will be tragically wasted!

LINK: http://www.thisisscunthorpe.co.uk/news/Scheme-stop-convicts-reoffending/article-570412-detail/article.html

A perceptive comment.

"Once you stop fearing government, the government fears you"

Robert D Graham.

Nick Griffin - Oh dear!

The BNP's constitution requires not just a stop on all immigration, but also - through voluntary repatriation and 'legal changes', to make Britain an overwhelmingly White country.
The BNP's founder described 'Mein Kampf' as his 'bible'.
The BNP opposes mixed-race relationships.
The BNP's Head of Publicity was shown on camera expressing admiration for Adolf Hitler.

Their leader is basically a holocaust denier - see about 45 seconds into this clip: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6X8QQwU00Jk1 minute 16 seconds into the same clip, he is asked whether he would force non-whites to leave the UK, irrespective of whether they were born in the UK or not.

His answer: "Ultimately, yes".

Or how about this clip? http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=poL95O13zNg&feature=

How could any Christian or rational person ever support this party?

Our Probation Service - the felons' friend.

The Probation Service has an "institutional reluctance to put the public first", the government's neighbourhood crime adviser has said.
Louise Casey said probation officers had "a kind of institutional desire to put offenders first, over and over".

The only thing is of course - this is hardly news!

LINK: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7798772.stm

Intsy wintsy attocopus 'proves' evolution.

Just consider this published [scientific?] statement:

"It seems that Attercopus is a missing link, capable of producing silk but not of weaving it."

So then. This 'ancient, 385 million year old' spider [give or take a month or so] has evolved, wisely planning ahead for a time when, possibly millions of years later, it will be able to use a function which it has not yet got a need for!

These evolution-promoting scientists are the slimy politicians of the scientific world with their twisted arguments, non sequiturs, failures to accept when they are either wrong or illogical and still they unashamedly foist their unprovable rubbish as fact onto the population as a whole.

Little wonder they dare not enter public debate with leading creationist scientists!

BNP? - No thanks but ...

I have lambasted the BNP on this Blog many times but I think that we need to put them into perspective - after all they are 'extremists' - we know this because the mainstream politicians have told us so!

The problem is of course, that they are called 'extreme' by the self same politicians who have:-

1} Sold our birthright to the EU.
2} Allowed the feckless and workshy a totally free ride.
3} Stolen money from the people to squander wildly and called it taxation.
4} Promoted multiculture to destroy our sense of oneness as a society.
5} Downgraded and derided the Christian Faith.
6} Permitted criminals to take over parts of our cities.
7} Failed to protect citizens from thugs by weak-kneed sentencing.
8} Allowed a veritable flood of immigrants to what is now the most overcrowded country in Europe.
9} Allowed the total dumbing down of education.
10}"Framed mischief by statute" [Psalm 94] and permitted a bevy of immoralities to fester and grow.
11} Have destroyed democracy with their 'we know what is best for you' attitudes.
12} They have created the 'nanny state' so they can have ever more control over us.
13} Failed to attack the drugs problems at source.
14} Have taken us into unwinnable foreign wars.[Labour with Conservative help]
15} Have wrecked the economy for generations as yet unborn [Labour only]
16} Have permitted the mass slaughter of the unborn.
17} Have promoted alien religions ahead of Christianity.
18} Have encouraged family breakdown.
19} Have encouraged and promoted illegitimacy and all the knock on social effects.
20} Have funded the irresponsible in countless spheres.
21} Have poured money into quangos
22} Have encouraged an ever burgeoning bureaucratic layer.
23} Have buried businesses in unending amounts of Brussels-inspired paper and meaningless regulations.
24} Have confused liberty with licence.
25} Have lied repeatedly. ['Of course there will be a referendum!']
25] Have made working a poor second choice for many who are trapped in the cycle of benefit dependency.

I had better stop, I suppose.
But these are the self same people who have the gall to call the BNP EXTREMIST.

Nice one, Dean.

Congratulations to The Dean of Peterborough Cathedral, Charles Taylor, for his Christmas message which unequivocally attacked the egregious Robert Gabriel Mugabe and also pointed out that if Mary and Joseph had been caught out in a credit crunch, they would most assuredly not have borrowed 'to solve the crisis'.
Well done that man!

REJOICE!

ISAIAH 9.

6} For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

7} Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.

If He that is born as man is called "The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father" - it is difficult to see how anybody with a trust in the Scriptures can be unitarian.

HAIL THE INCARNATE DEITY!

Des talks sense. [Yes it surprised me too.]

Desmond Tutu usually gets a pounding on this Blog for his liberal Christianity.

To be fair, I must now say a giant 'well done' to the odd little chap for his better-late-than-never demands that Mugabe be toppled!

Over the top?

I spend so much time lamenting the weakness of sentencing in this country that I feel I have a right to be angry when somebody is over-sentenced.
A 17 year old had sex with an 11 year old girl. This is utterly wrong from any viewpoint and should normally receive a significant custodial sentence BUT:

1] The offence was unknown to police and only revealed when the man walked into a police station and freely confessed.
2] The offence was 20 years old and the man's behaviour since has been praiseworthy. He has no criminal record.
3] His repentance is genuine as seen by him handing himself in when under no pressure to do so.
4] There is no danger of the offence being repeated.
5] He has no penchant for immature girls.
6] His immaturity at the time has not been fully recognised.

That a custodial sentence had still to be imposed is clear. That he should be added to the sex offenders' register is clear.
That he should receive a sentence of five years and four months after he has lived in a welter of guilt for two decades is over the top.

Where is the perspective? What does the sentence achieve?

I think 12 months in this situation would have been entirely appropriate - and this from a writer who would happily dish out 25 year sentences for this offence under different circumstances.

LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1100839/Man-jailed-walking-police-station-confessing-having-sex-11-year-old-girl--20-YEARS-ago.html

Altiero Spinelli.

It is more than 60 years since the stalinist Altiero Spinelli, wrote that the aim of the EU should be "stealthily to assemble the components of a supranational government and only to declare its true purpose at the end of the process by unveiling a constitution".

Just a reminder! [First published on this Blog on the 24th October 2007]

Lipo.

Every now and then a story hits the headlines which makes you feel good to be alive and which underpins the wonderful ingenuity of the human mind.

[And it's not even April the First!]

Do check the link - it is a real joy!

LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1101005/The-liposuction-fatmobile-How-cosmetic-surgeon-fills-car-patients-excess-flab.html

The Lisbon Fiasco.

'Shortly before Ireland voted, the president of the European Commission, José Manuel Durrão Barroso, warned electors that there was no Plan B.

Irish commentators innocently took this to mean that, if the treaty was rejected, it would be dropped. What Barroso in fact meant, as is now clear, is that Plan A would be resubmitted over and over again.'

[Thanks to Dan Hannan MEP.]

Isopods! - Same to you!

Don't you just love this chap who lives on the ocean bed and is in effect a rather large woodlouse?

He is an isopod. Guess what. He is unchanged in over 160 million years!

[For the rest of this article - go to recent posting on coelocanths and wherever ironic remarks are made, substitute 'isopod' for 'coelocanth'.]

Just one more conspiracy theory.

I am convinced that a large number of the conspiracy theories on the go at the moment are valid.

The problem arises in ascertaining which ones are for real and which are fantasies built on the very shakiest of foundations. They always sell well!

Here is one which is looking good which suggests - not for the first time - that General George Patton was assassinated for objecting to the way western leaders kowtowed so disastrously to Stalin at Yalta.

The knock on effects of their capitulation damaged Europe for many decades.

If Patton had been listened to, Soviet influence would have been drastically reduced.

It is also interesting that the aftermath of World War Two saw the great man portrayed as politically naive and the possible causer of war with the USSR.

That propaganda alone makes this scenario quite likely.

LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1099384/Controversial-General-Patton-murdered-cover-secret-deal-U-S-U-S-S-R--new-book-claims.html

Chris Booker keeps us informed.

'In a video for the British Wind Energy Association, the industry's chief lobby group, Mr Brown claimed: "We are now getting 3 gigawatts of our electricity capacity from wind power, enough to power more than 1.5 million homes."
This deliberately perpetuates the central confidence trick practised by the wind industry, by confusing "capacity" with the actual amount of electricity wind produces. In fact, as the Government's own figures show, wind turbines generate on average only 27 to 28 per cent, barely a quarter, of their "capacity".
In other words, far from producing those "3 gigawatts", the 2,000 turbines already built actually contributed - again on official figures - an average of only 694 megawatts (MW) last year, less than the output of a single medium-size conventional power station. Far from producing "enough to power more than 1.5 million homes", it is enough to power barely a sixth of that number, representing only 1.3 per cent of all the electricity we use. Yet for this we have already blighted thousands of square miles of countryside, at a cost of billions of pounds.
Indeed, at the same BWEA-sponsored event, Mike O'Brien, energy minister, went on to perpetuate the second confidence trick practised by both Government and industry, which is to conceal the fact that all this is only made possible by the huge hidden subsidy given to wind energy through the Renewables Obligation. This compels electricity companies to pay way over the odds for the power generated by wind turbines, a burden passed on to us all in our electricity bills.'

Sunday Telegraph.

Obama.

Readers of this Blog will be well aware of the machinations of that profoundly sinister organisation dedicated to world government, The Bilderberg Group.

Indications are many that Mr Obama was a guest at the last of their annual meetings.

You will be disturbed - but informed!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3369102968312745410

This is a film about the peace-loving [?] Islamic religion. It runs about 14 mins (16.48 overall with credits) - sound is required.

I have thought long and hard as to whether this should be included on the Blog and have decided that as extremist muslims could not argue the content and peace-loving muslims would reject the obscenities within in any case, then it is valid for me to circulate.

I make no comment.

Circumlocution.

Dickens' Little Dorritt had faded away into the dim and distant recesses of my memory until the recent BBC production.

There is 'something about Dickens' which I really like - and quite often, it is not easy to put your finger on precisely what that might be - especially in view of the bulk of his characters being unashamed stereotypes.

Little Dorritt contains the oh-so-wonderful circumlocution office - a veritable ministry of naked bureaucracy, created out of utter pointlessness and designed to frustrate the citizenry whilst feathering the nests of the idle elite.

You have to wonder what a latter day Dickens would have made of the European Union.

[If my latin were better I would of course know if my interpretation of 'circumlocution' as 'talking around in circles' were sufficiently valid.]

My feeling is that if Charlie had been alive today, he would have been a fervent member of UKIP!

Total meltdown is around the corner.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1098832/PETER-OBORNE-Darlings-roll-dice-spectre-wheelbarrows-banknotes.html

Another failing system.

'A senior magistrate has resigned in protest at Government policies that impose soft punishments and undermine the courts.
Dr Dick Soper says criminals are walking free from prison after serving just a quarter of the sentences he and his colleagues impose.
Others are being handed fixed fines or police cautions - taking justice out of the hands of the courts and away from public scrutiny.

Undermined: Dr Dick Soper feels there is too much interference by politicians in the judicial system
Dr Soper, 64, a GP, has served 26 years on the bench at Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.
He used his final session yesterday to deliver an angry broadside, saying: 'Although I could serve for another five years I no longer feel my time is being usefully spent in court.
'I feel that this long-standing system which has served the public well for centuries has, in recent years, been more and more interfered with by politicians.'
He told how he recently jailed an offender for six months but saw him walking about the town just six weeks later.
Dr Soper said: 'My greatest frustration and that of my colleagues is the very early release of prisoners.'
He said virtually all offenders are released automatically halfway through their sentences, while emergency measures to tackle prison overcrowding means many have another 18 days knocked off their sentences. Yet the judges and magistrates who heard their cases have no say over their early release.'

When I was invited to 'come back at any time' when I quit the Sheffield Bench as a Chairman over three years ago - my thoughts were 'Not bloomin likely!'
What Dr Soper states here is only a tiny fraction of my reasoning for leaving the magistracy.
We used to have the best summary justice system in the world bar none - and the 'usual suspects' have calculatedly wrecked it and removed its effectiveness.
Good decision Doc - you may miss your colleagues, you may miss the excellent court clerks [now renamed and jargonised] but I promise you one thing - you will not miss the frustrations of being unable to follow through on your original oath to 'do right'.

LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1098847/I-quit-says-magistrate-fed-seeing-criminals-walk-free-quarter-sentences.html

Balm in Gilead.

“Go up to Gilead and take balm.” Jeremiah 46:11

Refrain
There is a balm in Gilead
To make the wounded whole;
There is a balm in Gilead
To heal the sin sick soul.

Some times I feel discouraged,
And think my work’s in vain,
But then the Holy Spirit
Revives my soul again.

Refrain

If you can’t preach like Peter,
If you can’t pray like Paul,
Just tell the love of Jesus,
And say He died for all.

Refrain

Snow in Vegas..

By Jeff Poor, Business & Media Institute, 18/12/2008.

Unprecedented snow in Las Vegas has some scratching their heads – how can there be global warming with this unusual cold and snowy weather?

CNN Meteorologist Chad Myers had never bought into the notion that man can alter the climate and the Vegas snowstorm didn’t impact his opinion. Myers, an

American Meteorological Society certified meteorologist, explained on CNN’s Dec. 18 “Lou Dobbs Tonight” that the whole idea is arrogant and mankind was in danger of dying from other natural events more so than global warming.

“You know, to think that we could affect weather all that much is pretty arrogant,” Myers said. “Mother Nature is so big, the world is so big, the oceans are so big – I think we’re going to die from a lack of fresh water or we’re going to die from ocean acidification before we die from global warming, for sure.”

Myers is the second CNN meteorologist to challenge the global warming conventions common in the media. He also said trying to determine patterns occurring in the climate would be difficult based on such a short span.

Ever more people in the public spotlight are distancing themselves from the concept 'global warming'. I think they realise that they are going to get egg on their faces. Remember that the meaningless expression 'climate change' is being increasingly used instead of the more emotive 'global warming'.

Coelocanths.

If ever there has been a fossil to embarrass the average evolutionist, then it must be that of the coelocanth. This fish was confidently declared as extinct for a mere 65 million years [I assume that the figure had been rounded off a touch!]

Then catastrophically for the long agers, one was hauled up in a fishing net in southern Africa some decades ago! [Talk about keeping a low profile, eh?]

Strangely, the fish was exactly the same in form and shape as its ancestors from '65 million' and even '200 million years' ago. [If this fish had been around all this time without any evidence of having evolved at all - we must conclude that it was singularly lacking in ambition!]

Of course nowadays, with more efficient fishing methods, they are occasionally hauled up from the abyssal regions of the oceans and no longer cause quite so much of a stir.

Look at the photo. Note how the fins could actually be in the right position to have developed into limbs - unless of course, you are not into clutching at wild evolutionary straws. [Note too the fins on the fish's spine which could easily have evolved into a different, new type of 5th and 6th limb altogether - but didn't!]

It is presented as a 'living fossil' - whatever that drivel is supposed to mean! Just about every living thing today is represented in the fossil record!

LINK: http://www.wasdarwinright.com/livingfossils-f.htm

Labour and the family.

Readers may not have managed to detect that Labour and all their leftwing chums in the other 2 major parties really irritate me! - Well, they do!
Follow this link and see the dishonesty. They have been proved categorically wrong in all their attitudes to the traditional family and yet the only way they can respond is to make a partial retraction of their disastrous views.
Where is a good U Turn when you truly need it?

70% of crime is committed by the 25% of youngsters from single parent backgrounds. Alcohol abuse, educational failure, drugs, failed relationships et al, all show similar failings.

Annoyingly when a letter or article appears in the media on this topic, there is an immediate response on the lines of: "Well, My husband died 10 years ago and I now have three decent children at university."
NOBODY is criticising all single parents but rather a type of single parent and we all know what type - or at least we should!

LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1097845/Labour-admits-married-parents-best-children.html

Kingston Lacy.

'A night-time Christmas concert in a rural church has been scrapped in case one of the congregation fell in the dark and sued.
The 16-strong Collegium Vocale choir has spent weeks practising Handel's Messiah for the festive performance at tiny St Stephen Church.
But organisers have cancelled the event claiming the quaint countryside church could be 'dangerous' on a winter's night.'

Don't Health & Safety regs have a lot to answer for?

Mercer.

Sean Mercer's girlfriend has described the murderer of schoolboy Rhys Jones as a 'hero'.
I suppose that all goes to prove that there are: "More lowlifes under heaven than are dreamed of in your philosophy, Horatio"

EVERYBODY MUST READ THIS!

Financial Times Editorial Admits Agenda For Dictatorial World Government .

Jaw-dropping report concedes that “global governance” is a euphemism for anti-democratic global government
Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Tuesday, December 9, 2008
The Financial Times, one of the most respected and widely read newspapers on the planet, features an editorial today that openly admits the agenda to create a world government based on anti-democratic principles and concedes that the term “global governance” is merely a euphemism for the move towards a centralized global government.
For years we were called paranoid nutcases for warning about the elite’s plans to centralize global power and destroy American sovereignty. Throughout the 1990’s people who talked about the alarming move towards global government were smeared as right-wing lunatics by popular culture and the media.
Now the agenda is out in the open and in our faces, the debunkers have no more ammunition with which to deride us.
A jaw-dropping editorial written by the Financial Times’ chief foreign affairs commentator Gideon Rachman entitled ‘And now for a world government’ lays out the plan for global government and how it is being pushed with deceptive language and euphemisms in order to prevent people from becoming alarmed.
“For the first time in my life, I think the formation of some sort of world government is plausible,” writes Rachman, citing the financial crisis, “global warming” and the “global war on terror” as three major pretexts through which it is being introduced.
Rachman writes that “global governance” could be introduced much sooner than many expect and that President elect Barack Obama has already expressed his desire to achieve that goal, making reference to Obama’s circle of advisors which includes Strobe Talbott, who in 1992 stated, “In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. National sovereignty wasn’t such a great idea after all.”
Rachman then concedes that the more abstract term “global governance,” which is often used by top globalists like David Rockefeller as a veil to offset accusations that a centralized global government is the real agenda, is merely a trick of “soothing language” that is used to prevent “people reaching for their rifles in America’s talk-radio heartland”.
“But some European thinkers think that they recognise what is going on,” says Rachman. “Jacques Attali, an adviser to President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, argues that: “Global governance is just a euphemism for global government.” As far as he is concerned, some form of global government cannot come too soon. Mr Attali believes that the “core of the international financial crisis is that we have global financial markets and no global rule of law”.
Rachman proceeds to outline what the first steps to an official world government would look like, including the creation of “A legally binding climate-change agreement negotiated under the auspices of the UN and the creation of a 50,000-strong UN peacekeeping force”.
“A “world government” would involve much more than co-operation between nations,” writes Rachman. “It would be an entity with state-like characteristics, backed by a body of laws. The European Union has already set up a continental government for 27 countries, which could be a model. The EU has a supreme court, a currency, thousands of pages of law, a large civil service and the ability to deploy military force.”
“So, it seems, everything is in place. For the first time since homo sapiens began to doodle on cave walls, there is an argument, an opportunity and a means to make serious steps towards a world government,” concludes Rachman, before acknowledging that the path to global government will be “slow and painful”.
Tellingly, Rachman concedes that “International governance tends to be effective, only when it is anti-democratic,” citing the continual rejection of EU expansion when the question is put to a vote. “In general, the Union has progressed fastest when far-reaching deals have been agreed by technocrats and politicians – and then pushed through without direct reference to the voters,” writes Rachman.
So there you have it - one of the world’s top newspapers, editorially led by chief economics commentator Martin Wolf, a top Bilderberg luminary, openly proclaiming that not only is world government the agenda, but that world government will only be achieved through dictatorial measures because the majority of the people are dead against it.
Will we still be called paranoid conspiracy theorists for warning that a system of dictatorial world government is being set up, even as one of the world’s most influential newspapers admits to the fact? Or will people finally wake up and accept that there is a globalist agenda to destroy sovereignty, any form of real democracy, and freedom itself in the pursuit of an all-powerful, self-interested, centralized, unrepresentative and dictatorial world government?

Jobs.

1.34 million jobs have been created since 2001. [ I wonder how many of these are bureaucratic and not 'sharp-end'?]
Almost a half million of these have gone to immigrants. [You know - "the people who are here to do the jobs our people will not do!"]

LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1095154/Fresh-calls-cap-migrant-workers-figures-reveal-foreigners-taken-1-3m-jobs-created-2001.html

Public sector pensions.

I used to pay at least 6% of my teaching salary [it may have been more in practice] in pension contributions. My conditions of service doubled this amount.
Had I received that money for investment - even in the lowest performing and ultra safest of sectors - I would today have been receiving a non index-linked pension but it would have been more than double what I am currently receiving.
I could have had this index-linked and would still have been mightily in pocket.
I get a little fed up therefore, when the Daily Mail constantly berates 'public sector pensions' because of their costs.
a] I have contributed and
b] I have not had particularly good value.

Dan Hannan on the ball.

Dan Hannan remains the best of the tories in Brussels - and by a country mile!

This article about the way the eurocrats simply do their thing and ignore all public opinion is quite revealing.

LINK: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/danielhannan/3743512/Why-Eurocrats-believe-that-No-to-EU-treaty-is-the-Irish-for-Yes.html

Daniel Cohn-Bendit

Many of my older readers will recall Red Danny. At the time of the Paris riots in 1968, he was a leftwing, extremist student agitator of the worst sort. Even the French Communist leader found him too leftwing for his tastes.

I wonder what happened to him?

Ah. He is now the senior Green MEP in Brussels!

Anybody who thought that the Greens were not 'marxists in sandals' may be forced to rethink.

Mrs Blair.

Cherie Blair has always maintained that she is a fervent catholic.

One might ask how she squares this with her church's stance on abortion.

I understand that she is committed to permitting mothers to continue the butchery of the unborn.

Hell.

I remember decades ago that the leadership of Britain's Methodists decided to abolish all preaching on hell.

Just two questions:

1] Is that restriction still in place?

2] What precisely was it again that Christ died to save us from?

2nd referendum?

"Hey der Paddy - you ar' so tick dat oi reckon dat you didn't know what you wos votin' for. So - we iz gonna give you da chance ter keep votin' til you gets it roight."

Luv from Brussels.

Lib Dems on crime.

The Liberal Democrats always talk about the causes of crime being more important than the symptoms.

They are wrong twice over.

If you have flu - you need immediate action to control the illness as much as can be done and without holding back. You cannot suddenly go looking for a cure. It is nonsense.

Secondly, the Liberal Democrats accept silly definitions of what poverty is and then, like all the liberal left and socialists, blame this for being the main cause of crime. [Funny how crime levels in the 30s were a fraction of what they are now, eh? ]

They do not recognise that family breakdown, spoilt children, lack of controls, poor school discipline, multiculture, mass immigration, a reluctance to send youngsters to court, the abolition of the cane in schools and an absence of Christian teaching are the causes which they have naively failed to identify.

A clue.

The plunging value of sterling is a major clue as to what is happening in the midst of this financial fiasco known as a labour government.
They have spent too much, taxed too much and finally, borrowed too much.
The value of sterling represents the international perception of how well Brown is doing!

Foreign travel.

The pound is very poor currently in its exchange rate with the euro. This is especially bad news where foreign travel is concerned.
The secret is to pay in POUNDS. Book your flights in England, book your accommodation in England - for Spain as an example and then it is really only the carhire and spending money to worry about.
Why not check back to the holiday posting on this Blog on July the 17th for even more details.

Brown is economically inept!

How many times I have proved on this Blog that Brown is a fiscal nondescript; an economic buffoon; a shameless waster of our taxes.

It appears that I am not alone in this thinking!

Germany's finance minister has launched an outspoken attack on Britain's economic recovery plan.
Peer Steinbrueck said the Government was 'tossing around billions' and was getting the country into so much debt it would take a generation to work off.

QUITE!

Oh. And arrogant, too!

Yesterday, the Prime Minister struggled to make himself heard after a verbal gaffe in which he inadvertently [?] said 'we have saved the world' and left the Commons in uproar.

Ah. Jefferson.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

Thomas Jefferson.

Turtle recall?

The fossil of a half-shelled turtle has been discovered in China.
Two sets of evolutionary scientists of opposite views are arguing fervently that it completely supports their evolutionary fantasy. Hmm!
This all shows that evolution is so frequently down to the interpretation of the evidence available.
Problem is of course, it may just be what it appears to be - a half-shelled turtle; a previously unknown species.
Similarly, it could be a degenerated version of a turtle which lends no help whatsoever to the evolutionary hypothesis.
But as evolutionists are so emphatic in their guesswork ....

Jefferson - again!

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

Thomas Jefferson.

Born BC?

It has long been recognised that the 6th Century monk, Dionysius Exiguus, calculated the birth date of Christ's birth quite badly and that Christ had to have been born BC.

Now scientists tell us that the date is likely to have been in June, 2 BC.

Historically, 4 BC looks a better bet, though.

If the older date is true, it will lengthen the time of Christ's Ministry which has previously been considered to have been about three years.

It also makes Jesus older than the 33 postulated - which makes much sense as he was otherwise rather on the young side to have been accepted by the populace as a legitimate rabbi.

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