Petrol is cheap: the oil companies done good!

At the 28.7p per litre that the big oil companies charge us for our petrol, we must admit that the cost is most reasonable.

(For sake of balance, I needs must point out though, that the government does add just a little bit in taxation to round the price up nicely to £1-20. I particularly admire the bit where they charge us VAT on bits already taxed.)

Wisdom!

'When politicians talk about changing the world, it's time to start counting the spoons!'

Melanie Phillips.

Apparently this ancient song upsets humanists - fine!

What's the Life of a Man?

As I was a walking one morning at ease

A viewing the leaves as they fell from the trees

All in slow motion appearing to be

And those that had withered, they fell from the trees

What's the life of a man anymore than the leaves

A man has his season, so why should we grieve?

Though all thru this life, we appear fine and gay

Like the leaves we will wither and soon fade away.

If you'd seen the leaves just a few days ago

So beautiful and bright they all seemed to grow

A frost came upon them and withered them all

A storm came upon them and down they did fall

If you look in the churchyard, there you will see

Those that have passed like the leaves from the trees

When age and affliction upon us do fall

Like the leaves we must wither and down we must fall.

[Anon.]

I am sorry - but not one of us is able to escape our mortality! Would it not be sensible then to investigate the claims of the Gospel very carefully just in case it's right?

1790 - will appeal to a limited section of this Blog's readership.

Sorry for this small departure - please indulge me.

The politics of envy backfires.

Do you think that the super rich have too much money? - I'd probably agree but would have to say that it's none of my business, really.
Do I think that they should be persecuted by the rabid left? - Absolutely not!
Would I like to see them paying more in tax? - No!

I am being purely pragmatic here. The super rich only pay taxes as volunteers. If they regard a level as fair (probably one pitched much lower than you and I might consider fair) their money, businesses and entrepreneurship remain in the UK.
When that is not the case, they simply remove their assets - and never more easily than in the computer age - and then ALL their funding is lost to us.
The left rant and rave at this as they embark on some wild pontificating against the wealthy. They do not care what the consequences are which result from ultra high taxation - they 'just know' that this is how it has to be!

Consider Micky Caine:
'Sir Michael Caine has joined the growing revolt over the new coalition's plans to hike taxes, insisting it will encourage the wealthy and top companies to quit Britain.
Sir Michael, a tax exile for eight years in the 70s after income tax hit 82 per cent - claimed major increases would encourage people to leave the country like he did.'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1282203/Now-Michael-Caine-joins-tax-revolt-Camerons-celebrity-backer-warns-exodus-crippling-hikes.html#ixzz0pIaheU29

RIP.

Mum's funeral yesterday. Happily, it was a joyful and celebratory occasion with God honoured.
Unhappily, too many funerals today are shallow, depressing, man-centred and have no hope to offer.

Tragically accurate.

WHEN Labour's Frank Field - who was asked by Tony Blair to 'think the unthinkable' on welfare - heard Gordon Brown planned to put a stop to his reforms, he hurried to No 11 and quoted Gladstone.
'Any fool can give money to the poor,' he told Mr Brown. 'The question is whether money gives them freedom.'
But freedom was the last thing that interested Mr Brown. He wanted the poor dependent on the government and voting Labour.
Set them free and they might, horror of horrors, turn Conservative.

PLEASE, do read the rest of this article!

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1282045/HARRIET-SERGEANT-Time-smash-broken-system.html#ixzz0pCsK3ifl

New?

I wonder why the evolutionary hypothesis always reminds me of The Emperor's New Clothes?

Quixote move over!

You will all be delighted to hear that since my last report on the efficiency levels of our local trio of wind turbines, after more than four months of uncertainty, ONE is actually working - well, er, most of the time, anyway.
(3rd June - none working AND all the 8 or so windmills on Bagmoor near Scunthorpe I passed this morning not working either!)

Carrot & stick.

If psychology were a true science rather than a study area based more on opinionated reasoning than tangible research, it could not have happened.

If in those places where this part-science overlaps with genuine research, correct assumptions had been drawn - it could not have happened.

If psychology were more down to earth and less pie in the sky it could not have happened.

If psychology had been more scientific and less infiltrated by Social Studies and their variants, it could not have happened AND

If this had not been seen as a ready-made delight for leftists of varying hues - then it could not have happened!

I refer of course, to the wholesale, surgical removal of all common sense from the vague and the wishy-washy.

Let us take an established social condition - neigh, let us call it a principle:

Carrot and stick. (Thought I'd made a faux pas in the speling department there, did you?)

'Carrot and stick' WORKS. We have all tried it - and had it tried on us too. We can all give numerous examples. This is not just a principle, it is an empirical fact.

When do you see this admitted in anything other than a purely theoretical way in mainstream psychology?

'All carrot and no stick' is the aim and this has played right into the hands of the liberal left.

On a separate issue, the arrogance of psychologists has never ceased to amaze me. They breeze into schools on occasion where there is an extremely mixed up pupil who needs to be evaluated.

Twenty minutes alone with them is followed by a detailed twenty page report.

Sorry. I ain't buying it! Aren't these the self same people who claim that you need 'years of therapy' to investigate 'root causes' if you are paying their rather hefty fees?

Text of a letter I sent out widely yesterday.

WHY NOT CELEBRATE HITLER'S BIRTHDAY TOO?

I expect that knowledgeable Christians will have been as disgusted as I was to see that 'Europe Day' was celebrated earlier this month, at of all places, Westminster Abbey! Sadly, Europe was not being celebrated at all - it was the ever rancid EU.
Disgusting as it may sound to those who recognise the evil which permeates that toxic organisation - from its bottom to its lofty and overweening top - the matter was compounded by celebrating the 60 years since Schuman's wolf-in-sheep's-clothing-Declaration set this vile body in motion.
That a place of Christian worship should have been so desecrated in order to celebrate: lies; deceits; tyranny; human self-aggrandisement; imperialism; greed; the antithesis of democracy; impoverishment of our people; corruption and a subservient mentality, is nothing less than a total abomination - besides which, the EU does Christianity no favours, quite the contrary.

No doubt, the kindly-minded but nonetheless, terminally naive, will make unverifiable claims for the EU's mythical 'peacemaking abilities'; it being 'a catalyst for fraternity' and 'a body outside of which it is impossible for any independent nation to survive'.
If prayer is to be directed towards this foul leviathan - then it should be for its extinction - or at very least - some form of exorcism to wrest us from its satanic claws.

Church of England - SHAME ON YOU!

The Rotherham Advertiser published it!

What? - Good News From Iran?

Yes! Good news from Iran of all places!

'Two Christian prisoners of faith have been acquitted of all charges 14 months after their arrest – and are now safe in a country outside Iran.
Maryam Rustampoor and Marzieh Esmaeilabad left Iran last Saturday – with a warning from the courts that they would be 'dealt with severely' if they were ever involved in Christian activities in Iran again.'

Release Int.

3 claims - or maybe promises.

The Conservatives are introducing a 'crackdown' on welfare payments which will:

A] Target those who refuse to work, who 'will lose benefits'.

B] It will tackle the mega problem of people often being worse off by working than on the dole and

C] It will raise the pension age.

I am not much of a gambler but I think I'd be prepared to wager a small sum that the first two points will just not happen but the third will be implemented successfully.

(PS. Watch out for new uses for the iniquitous Human Rights Act!)

Blind cave fish.

The terminally tiresome Professor Dawkins is one of many evolutionists who have used the fact that certain creatures - such as blind cave fish - have vestigial organs which is 'proof' of evolution when it is actually a deceit to do this.

'In 2004 scientists studied blind cave fish with ‘vestigial eyes’ as well as their sighted relatives that lived in the light. They found they could get the blind fish to develop eyes when they implanted eye tissue from the sighted into a blind fish.All similar studies on real vestigial organs such as flightless beetles with tiny stumps of wings show that they are descended from winged beetles and have degenerated by loss so they are now stuck where they are living. Quite the opposite of evolution.'

Creation Research.

Heard that scientists have 'created' life? - Not at all!

'Venter’s team did something very intelligent that required a lot of creative design, but they did not create life. What they have done is to interpret genetic information already present in a bacterialchromosome, and using their understanding of DNA language they have assembled a new chromosome. However, in order to complete the chromosome assembly they had to make use of already existing yeast cells. Furthermore, the genetic information on the newly made chromosome has made new cells by using the already existing cellular machinery of the pre-existing recipient cells. This experiment reminds us that the real key to the creation of life is not the chemicals DNA is made from, but the externally designed information encoded onto the DNA chemicals as well as the existence of DNA readers, cells to protect the process and a fluid environment that is friendly to the process. Without these the DNA sequence is not life at all. The information used in this case as in all known cases is the productof a pre-existing mind, and using it required creative design and clever chemical engineering.'

Evidence News 04/10 – 26th May 2010AD

£33 billion a year and all based on 'junk' science!

'Europe will introduce a surprise new plan today to combat global warming, committing Britain and the rest of the EU to the most ambitious targets in the world. The plan proposes a massive increase in the target for cutting greenhouse gas emissions in this decade.' [The Times.]

Sigh!

How can justice be achieved?

'A husband who helped his wife suffocate was yesterday spared prosecution for assisting her suicide.
It was the first death in Britain in which the Director of Public Prosecution’s new rules on assisted suicide have been used to decide that there should be no criminal charges.'

The real problem in such cases for me is in the deciding whether or not the assistance given 'was an act of love'. Just how do you do that?

In a linked but decidedly different situation, with the now universal and generally spurious claims by wrongdoers of 'I was abused as a child', the outsider is given the near impossible task of establishing truth.

I often suggest solutions to social problems. Not in these cases, I am afraid.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1280836/Husband-helped-wife-kill-UK-face-charges.html#ixzz0ouGBMII7

Sniff, sniff - hayfever is a good thing?

Allergies 'slash risk of cancer': They help to boost immune system, say experts.

Hmm. Would like to believe but it is experts again!

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1280728/Allergies-slash-risk-cancer-They-help-boost-immune-say-experts.html#ixzz0ooqfoFBf

Proverbs 3:5 (NIV)

'Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.'

Brown's worth.

Apparently Gordon Brown, failed Prime Minister extraordinaire, is to go onto the American lecture circuit at a paltry £70k a pop!

Funny. I had valued him at a touch less but my valuation did have a 7 in it but did have rather a lot to do with rusty washers.

Sporting aesthetics.

I have been giving a certain amount of time of late considering 'beauty in various sports'.

"Clearly, you have too much time on your hands." - Do I hear you say?

Well. Football has its moments as do rugby and tennis, I suppose.

If you class yachting as a sport, I reckon that you may well introduce that into the argument but surely, cricket is streets ahead of all the rest.

Watching a great batsman is a question of timing, grace, elegance, style, simplicity and even purity.

Anybody who ever saw Tom Graveney bat will know precisely what I am attempting to explain.

Useful advice on tattoos?

I have had a number of conversations about whether or not Christians should tattoo. It is not a practice I find particularly appealing but I found this piece which some may find helpful.

'This is a question many Christians struggle with. I believe tattooing falls into the category of "disputable matters" where the Bible is not clear. But wait a minute, you might be thinking. The Bible says in Leviticus 19:28, "Do not cut your bodies for the dead, and do not mark your skin with tattoos. I am the Lord." (NLT) How much clearer can that be?
It's important, however, to look at the verse in context. This passage in Leviticus, including the surrounding text, is specifically dealing with the pagan religious rituals of the people living around the Israelites. God’s desire is to set his people apart from other cultures. The focus here is prohibiting worldly, heathen worship and witchcraft. God forbids his holy people to engage in idolatrous, pagan worship and sorcery which imitates the heathens. He does this out of protection, because he knows this will lead them away from the one true God.'
LINK: http://christianity.about.com/od/faqhelpdesk/f/tattoochristian.htm

Another exclusive from MITK!

Mole-in-the-know has uncovered another interesting piece of information. In a certain city, tax inspectors have been ordered never to visit certain areas where there are a high number of 'ethnic' shops.

Apparently, virtually no tax, VAT or National Insurance is ever paid in these communities and it might be perceived as 'racist' to uncover the countless illegalities.

Predictable.

The Lib-Con wants to price ordinary people out of a relaxing drink or two and as most of us cannot afford to go to the pub more than a few times a year, they will now target the supermarket special offers.

This is for our own good, of course.

BUT, you say, isn't this to stop the wicked abuses of alcohol seen on the streets of every town centre almost every weekend?

Well ... er ... no! It is Brown-style stealth taxation.

Those problems exist largely because of Labour having messed with the licensing laws and successive governments having stopped realistic punishments for all yobbish behaviour - whether alcohol-fuelled or not.

Oh. And another thing. IT WON'T WORK!

The yobs will pay the prices as will the alcos and the loonies.

The ordinary majority will be punished for the sins of the minority.

This is WRONG and so typical of the centre left!

MITK returns.

Mole-in-the-know has been diving and delving again and is able to bring you an interesting titbit of information from Sheffield-where-the-sun-always-shines.
In the noble metropolis, there are around 100 deaths per week.
There are 150 births!

Please ponder these figures. On the surface, they are extremely worrying for this over-populated nation but there are certainly other levels to fathom.

Marie Stopes.

I have never been able to establish whether or not Marie Stopes was actually just in favour of birth control or whether she also favoured the wholesale butchery of unborn infants - a small but significant percentage of which are capable of survival outside the womb!
I may be wrong but I suspect that naming abortion clinics after her would have sickened this lady to the very core.
Now these so-and-sos are advertising their Eichmann-style services:

An advert offering abortion services will be shown for the first time on British television next week.
Marie Stopes International, a charity that carries out about 65,000 terminations a year at its British clinics, said that it wanted to encourage people to speak more openly about abortion, and reach the widest possible audience with information about its services. [The Times.]

THEY ARE LYING THROUGH THEIR TEETH! The last thing they want is more openness.
If that is their desire, then let them insist that no woman nor girl will ever be allowed an abortion until they have seen 'The Silent Scream' or similar.
If you have not viewed this short film, let me tell you that it shows what happens with an abortion at varying stages and shows how truly gut-wrenching it really is. It was made by an abortionist who finally recognised the evil he was performing.
It is now a touch old fashioned but I always show it to pupils as a vital part of my sex education course - although as it so gruelling, I always insist on a parental permission slip signed in advance to allow the film's viewing to each individual.
This film is banned in most secondary schools as "It is too graphic."
BUT. If an abortion is too terrible to see - then surely it is too terrible to perform.

The failings of the euro.

This morning's Times tells us a woeful tale that was oh-so-predictable:

"Shocked European ministers are preparing for emergency talks to shore up the euro after markets fell in reaction to panic measures in Germany."

Like matched with unlike is almost always folly. How do you link together a Greek-style economy with that of a Germany?

One size-fits-all don't work with shoes and no more do it work with politically-inspired, artificial constructs such as the single currency!

As Chancellor and later PM the only plus point in favour of Brown was that although foolish and politically blinkered, he was never idiotic enough to shackle us to this monster.

Just got to hope now that exchange rates give me a bit more purchasing power in my summer hols!

The madness never ends - it just grows!

Judge rules terror pair ARE a threat to national security... but they CAN'T be deported because of human rights.

Let's ordain shoplifters.

I have had a great idea! Why doesn't the Church start to ordain inveterate shoplifters as Bishops?
No. Before you reject the idea out of hand - just consider. Why are they shoplifters in the first place? - Clearly, it is because that is the way that God made them.
Obviously, they must not be excluded from bishoprics; they must not be victims of discrimination; they must not be regarded as lesser Christians and after all, 'sin' is such an outmoded concept - God has evidently moved on from such ancient thinking.
But, hmm. I wonder where this idea could best be tested?

How about in The American Episcopal Church!

More long spoons needed?

Is it just me or does that king Rumanian investor, Frank Timis, physically resemble the late and much-lamented Ronnie Kray?
Anyway, I note from a well known scurrilous, but perforce, well-researched journal, that he has two convictions for intent to supply, and possession of, heroin.
For reasons I am unable to discover, he was also recently 'fined' £600k by his oil firm, Regal. So what has all of this to do with the price of fish, you may well ask?

HE WAS THE MAIN INVESTOR IN THE CHRISTIAN PARTY FOR THIS LAST GENERAL ELECTION!

This is the party so 'hot on honesty and integrity', eh?' Not only does it crassly see the election of Griffin as an MEP in the North West but takes a paltry, countrywide, 17,000 votes each at a cost of just £6 of Frank's cash.

(See postings June 5th 2009 & March 13th 2010.)

My favourite hymn - first two verses.

Here is love, vast as the ocean,
Lovingkindness as the flood,
When the Prince of Life, our Ransom,
Shed for us His precious blood.
Who His love will not remember?
Who can cease to sing His praise?
He can never be forgotten,
Throughout Heav’n’s eternal days.





On the mount of crucifixion
Fountains opened deep and wide;
Through the floodgates of God’s mercy
Flowed a vast and gracious tide.
Grace and love, like mighty rivers,
Poured incessant from above,
And Heav’n’s peace and perfect justice
Kissed a guilty world in love.

Mum died four and a half hours after this posting.

Cameron? Principles? - Ha!

David Cameron used the coalition talks with Nick Clegg as an excuse to ditch ‘daft’ Tory policies he secretly wanted to get rid of all along – such as scrapping inheritance tax and getting rid of his pledge to rip up the Human Rights Act, it was claimed last night.
The leader of Mr Clegg’s negotiating team, new Scottish Secretary Danny Alexander, said his Conservative counterparts, led by William Hague and George Osborne, produced a list of Mr Cameron’s manifesto pledges and invited the Lib Dems to strike them out.
And Mr Cameron’s controversial policy guru Steve Hilton was reportedly delighted that the coalition had enabled Mr Cameron to ‘bury the Tory Right-wing’.

"Cameron is an unrepentant leftie!"

Come on UKIP! Fill that right of centre void!
A non tory centre right would attract most tory voters and many who, on principle, would never vote conservative under any circumstances!

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/election/article-1278779/Tories-ditched-policies-fast-listed-Cameron-wanted-bury-party-Right-say-Lib-Dems.html#ixzz0o3iqcU00

So, who is surprised?

Let us consider the LibLabCon where I have long stated that the differences between them are between minimal and non existent.

Clearly, we are expected to believe that the tories are the most right-leaning section of this trio - even allowing for their massive, leftward surge under 'Dave'.

The Lib Dems are objectively the most liberal left of these three.

The coalition seems to be going rather too well at the moment.

Add all these ingredients together then analyse carefully! What must you conclude?

The correct answer is that if you check back to the opening sentence of this piece, the evidence is stacking up and beginning to look rather conclusive!

Want proof that Comprehensives have failed?

Try this:-

'Of those men and women around the Cabinet table, a staggering 67 per cent went to top private schools, compared with just 7 per cent of the total population.'

Bring back the grammar school!

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1278554/How-privileged-Cabinet-damning-indictment-Britains-comprehensives.html#ixzz0ny9QYS6y

Surely, Letter of the Week in the Yorks post!

From: William Snowden, Butterbowl Gardens, Farnley Ring Road, Leeds.

'EDWARD McMillan-Scott's chameleonic conversion from Conservatism to "Liberalism" (Yorkshire Post, May 11) was clearly ideologically driven: he believes in the centralising edicts of the European Project. I do not.Politicians like Mr McMillan-Scott piously profess to be democrats and yet consistently deny people the right to a referendum.The founding fathers of the European Project, recognised that their desire to establish a federal Europe would be thwarted by the people. They thus adopted a gradualist approach in which their ultimate ambition would be achieved by stealth. Each successive treaty, concocted by Europe's political establishment, and without the consent of the people, has represented an incremental step of the path to a United States of Europe. Under such an amorphous system, Britain would be reduced to a jigsaw of vassal regions, each of which would owe ultimate fealty to the Great Power.That is not democracy, Mr McMillan-Scott; it is the antithesis of democracy.'

Accurate in all points!

Return of an old friend from a secret investigation.

Mole-in-the-know has been under deep cover investigating the 1.3 million increase in people drawing sickness benefits over the last decade and a half and has uncovered a fact which shows that a portion of the increase is worryingly genuine.

In certain ethnic communities, it is a well documented fact that marriage to cousins is extremely common. This depleted gene pool is naturally resulting in a great many births of children with disabilities and physical defects.
THEY HAVE NOW GROWN UP! In addition this practice is draining money from other social service budgets. Funny how I have never seen this problem exposed in the media. It is occasionally mentioned but to my knowledge, has never been subjected to any thorough, political investigation in the political arena either.
MITK has been unable to unearth exact figures but recognises that this phenomenon has become a significant part of the increase.
Marriage to cousins? - This currently legal, but nonetheless unsavoury process, must now be forbidden by Law. The deleterious effects are becoming socially very significant. Ask the Crowned Heads of Europe if MITK is right or not!

I think I catch more than a whiff of political correctness in all of this!

'Imagine there's no heaven.'

We were invited by that rather odd chap, John Lennon, to 'Imagine there's no heaven.'

Okay. I'll buy it. I am now imagining that at death there is simple extinction of the human being: body, soul and spirit.

It would mean that we would not get to see departed loved ones again which is quite sad but conversely, there is no fear of hell - and as far as heaven is concerned, how can you be troubled too greatly by missing out on something you have never experienced?

No. Not all that bad really yet atheists seem utterly sold out on the idea that all Christians are solely 'motivated by a desperate desire to get into an unknown, nebulous heaven.' - (Probably the avoidance of hell is actually a bit nearer the mark.)

It all comes down to your attitude. 'Pie in the sky when you die OR steak on the plate while you wait' as one old Pastor of mine used to say.

ALL of the atheistic creations of 'straw men' entirely miss the point. ALL these arguments are utterly trivial and not very relevant. Christianity is about entering a relationship with the Living Lord Jesus Christ - NOW. All that death really means is that this will then continue in different surroundings.

Little wonder that atheists haven't the faintest notion of what is actually going on!

Ecological problem in Galilee.

By Wyre Davies BBC News, En Gev.

'The Sea of Galilee has for centuries provided a healthy living for hundreds of fishermen - the disciple Peter among them, according to the Bible.
But now an unprecedented fishing ban is being enforced on the Galilee because, says the Israeli government, chronic over-fishing has severely depleted stocks.'

Perhaps that meal of St Peter's fish that my family and I enjoyed about fourteen years ago in a kibbutz was partially responsible.
(As I recall - it was tasty but rather too boney.)

The euro.

If the euro fails, can the demise of the EU be far behind?
( I had some Smileys somewhere. Now where did I put them?)

What? - Something from The Daily Star on my Blog!?!?

FYI.

Daily Star: YOU KNOW WHEN YOU'VE BEEN QUANGO'D.

UNELECTED bureaucrats cost Brits a whopping £90 billion on largely pointless public bodies last year.
More than 1,100 quangos spent the staggering sum – £3,640 for every household – in 2007/08, a £13bn hike on the previous year.
Now the Taxpayers’ Alliance has urged political leaders to help the UK’s ailing economy by cutting the number of groups, which include the Agricultural Wages Board, the National School of Government and the Health Protection Agency.
Alliance researcher Ben Farrugia said: “Politicians are talking about a ‘bonfire of the quangos’ but the terrible state of public finances means this must be more than just idle talk .”

Job losses.

Labour and the banking buddies whom they unleashed and unshackled, have given us an evil amount of debt - way above the levels of more sensibly run economies.

Already there are talks of massive job losses in councils etc.

There are no guarantees that 'sharp end jobs' will be protected. Indeed, it seems that that is just where the axe is destined to fall.

Extraneous managers, paper-pushers, jobsworths, purveyors of unnecessary statistics et al will not be affected - they seldom are!

"It's okay for you - criticising like that but have you got any answers?"

I certainly have! Leaving aside the obvious point that this simply could not have happened to this degree under a UKIP administration, here are some of the solutions:-

1) All public services must remain at the same levels as at present even if budgets are reduced. Bureaucrats do not deliver services and must be the first to go.

2) Public spending must be cut on unemployment and sick benefits. A trawl will be necessary to remove those who should not be there - and yes - I know full well how the Major Government and later Labour have made this extremely difficult in their disgraceful attempts to hide unemployment figures. The genuine must NOT be pilloried!

3) Deport all illegals forthwith and make the professionally unemployed do the jobs they have been doing but at minimum wage - not below! Discourage legal immigrants who are doing jobs which could be done by locals. This can be done through the taxation system.

4) Withdraw from the EU to associate status which:

a) Plugs our borders.

b) Reduces bureaucracy - particularly if we root out the worst laws and most expensive directives.

c) Makes employing people easier - at least across the private sector.

d) Saves on 'subs' at over £6 billion annually.

e) And saves anything up to £120 billion annually (TPA) on business costs.

5) A direct assault on unaccountable quangos which eat public money in tens of billions annually. Their use must be assessed and value established. The aim must be to cut £50 billion from this open-mouthed, public gannet which costs every household an average £3,600 annually.

http://www.taxpayersalliance.com/media/2009/10/daily-telegraph-quangos-cost-each-household-3600-a-year.html

6) Stop all benefits paid to EU immigrants for families who are not even in the UK!

7) Leave taxation alone unless implementing plans to encourage entrepreneurs and new businesses. Ultimately, a flat tax system is needed.

8) Like it or not, accept that all the super rich are pure volunteers where taxpaying is concerned. If they feel incentivised, they and their money STAY! Target them and both leave!

9) There must be a degree of pump-priming (Ref: FDR.)

The infrastructure of the nation is crumbling and this is a means of doubling up on attacking the problem. The jobless can be directed into road improvement projects.

10) Scrap the £100 billion quixotic windmill nonsense.

11) Not in the EU? - No £8 billion payments to aid Greece.

Here is a start but remember that Defence - the first priority of government - is incredibly underfunded and that we also are looking at phenomenal, future bills for power generation because of decades of dilydallying over nuclear power - whilst the French organised themselves with a view to the future.

Yes. I left the RSPB.

'In the battle to protect England's green and pleasant land, they ought to be birds of a feather.
But the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds has fallen prey to a savage attack from the 'bible' of rural England, Country Life.
In an editorial, the magazine has accused the RSPB of being 'obsessed' with protecting birds of prey at the expense of songbirds.

Sea eagles are being reintroduced
It also criticised the charity for failing to back struggling farmers and being fixated with subjects 'only distantly related to bird protection', such as global warming.
In the piece, headed 'What future for the RSPB?', Country Life said millions of sparrows and starlings had vanished from towns, and lapwings and cuckoos were increasingly rare in the country.
Yet, after successful reintroductions, the number of peregrines, red kites and marsh harriers were rising, it pointed out.'

Quite! And what of the sparrowhawks which are causing devastation? The trouble is that when dithery wets get into positions of power in wildlife organisations, they cannot see the wood for the trees.

WILDLIFE MUST BE MANAGED! Man has interfered in the environments; man must put it right.

(I won't even mention magpies - my bête noire et blanche.)

Don't support the RSPB - DO support The Songbird Survival Trust.

Chess.

When you play chess, what you are planning to do is exactly half your battle: the other half is in trying to get inside your opponent's thinking. Without both facets, it is simply impossible to do well in chess.

When I consider atheism, I can look at this from both sides. I put my knowledge and experience into play and also analyse the atheist point of view from where they stand.

When you are able to do this, you have an overview and are in the best possible position for reaching conclusions.

The atheist cannot gain that overview. They do not have any 'experience of atheism' to lean on - merely unsubstantiated opinion.

Remarkably, I am yet to meet an atheist who is able or willing to take either 'a Christian's eye view' or perhaps more importantly 'a God perspective' on the matter.

For example, the atheist will take a Christian point that they do not like and will view it from 'a mankind's eye viewpoint' and seem incapable of taking 'a God perspective'. They are simply not able to consider the idea that God might be omnipotent and omniscient.

In true intellectual thought, you must be able to 'do the chess thing'.

Wild surmising passed off as science.

What a load of dinosaur droppings!

Gulping down food might have helped plant-eating dinosaurs grow into giants.
If they had stopped to chew, they would have run out of eating time, scientists say. But guzzling let them get food into their stomachs quickly.
This may explain why dinosaurs such as argentinosaurus, which weighed up to 100 tons, had long necks and tiny heads.
'Mights and mays, ifs and would'ves'. Oh dear. How pathetic!

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1277498/Dinosaurs-grew-prehistoric-giants-gulped-food-chewing.html#ixzz0ni9MJrVx

Glory for Harperson.

Harridan Harperson is currently in charge of The Labour Party!

Aggressive secularism - be warned!

'As 350 Christians gathered in Belfast to make a joint declaration that they would stand with the persecuted Church, there were warnings that Christian freedom in the UK was also at risk.

Key speaker at the Call for Action at St Anne’s Cathedral on May 1, was Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali. He spoke of the different reasons for Christians being persecuted in many parts of the world, then warned about the impact on the UK of what he called the spread of aggressive secularism.

His comments came after a landmark legal judgement last week over the dismissal of a Christian counsellor.'

Release Int.

He who sups with the devil ...

"Therfore bihoueth hire a ful long spoon That shal ete with a feend."

[c 1390 Chaucer, Squire's Tale l. 602]

Trouble is - to which of the two should I proffer this advice?

Snow in May to confirm global warming?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1276698/Summers-just-corner--brace-snow-May.html

Well, yes.

Spot on with the Lib Dems but ...

Thursday's Letters,Yorks Post: Published Date: 05 May 2010.

The floating voter will now be more confused than ever with the meteoric rise of the Lib Dems. All three main parties have had to make big adjustments in order to improve their appeal to the voters. Labour under Tony Blair, for example, was compelled to move to the right to make the party electable again. He and Gordon Brown adopted market- orientated economic policies that brought considerable success, favoured by the inheritance of a very sound financial foundation from the outgoing John Major government and an extremely benign low inflation global economic climate. But Brown eventually dissipated all this as his socialist instincts, combined with his hubristic over-confidence, went into overdrive to plunge the country into a ruinous debt situation. Likewise, David Cameron was lumbered with a Conservative Party in a deeply demoralised state resulting from the ERM debacle and sleaze fiasco. To cleanse the party's sullied reputation Cameron embarked on a green-leaning environmental campaign with the adoption of a more liberal social outlook.The Lib Dems under Nick Clegg also changed their election strategy to move to a more popular consensus. With his Indiana Jones performance on television, exploiting his undoubted skills in personable presentation, Clegg has managed to differentiate his party's challenge from Labour and the Tories with a refreshing new look appeal. But there are fundamental flaws in the Lib Dem position. Like his party, Clegg is an internationalist to the very entrails, completely indifferent to the intrinsic democratic deficit enshrined in the EU constitution and our continuing loss of sovereignty. Furthermore, the party is probably left of Labour in its core attitude to immigration, with its amnesty policy, I believe, a locomotive to demographic disaster. So far, attacks on these standpoints, by the Tories, have been weak and ineffectual but represent the difficulty of bringing these issues on to the election stage.Nevertheless, it reveals the politically correct nature of Clegg's party, that, with its opposition to nuclear power stations and its subservience to everything green would scar our countryside with countless wind farms while their toughness on crime discloses a genuine softness. Generally, however, on the doorstep, Lib Dems present a more moderate agenda, masking their core beliefs in an "all things to all men" opportunistic approach with their political colour ranging across the spectrum in the fashion of a chameleon slithering across some early Picasso. Fundamentally the colour is a shocking pink so watch the gloss when you vote; it may be seductive but the consequences for the country will be for real. From: Gordon Lawrence, Stumperlowe View, Sheffield.

(Right about the tories - but should have pointed out their detachment from traditional supporters; that their leftward lurch makes them largely indistinguishable from the other centre left parties; that the nation no longer has a centre right option (Step forward UKIP, please!) and that the move probably cost 'Dave' the election!

Eurozone.

'European finance ministers have agreed a €750 billion (£650 billion) EU and International Monetary Fund bailout fund to help shore up troubled eurozone economies teetering in the European Union's growing financial crisis.' The Times.

This is the EU. I expect that they will already be trying to find some means of dumping most of the bill on us! (Note: the dark blue areas on the map are all the countries which still retain some vestiges of autonomy.)

Announced yesterday: We shall have to pay in £8 billion to the Eurozone shambles we do not even belong to and Alastair Darling thinks that this is 'a good thing'.