St Bernard needs a brandy!

"St Bernard study casts doubt on Creationism”, claims an article in Manchester University News and Medical News Net ,24 Oct 2007. Kris Klingerberg of the Faculty of Life Sciences, Manchester University, has apparently studied the skulls of 47 St Bernard dogs and looked at how they have changed over the 120 years since the breed was first defined."

Broader skulls, thicker ridge over the eyes and a steeper angle between nose and forehead.

All in just 120 years!

AND some wonder why evolutionists receive so much mockery from thinking people.

a] To use this as a claim for 'natural selection being a force for evolution' rather overlooks the point that the 'selection' was entirely man-controlled throughout the process. Doggy owners made the selections for the kind of characteristics they were seeking. It is called 'selective breeding'.

b] Secondly, there is no new genetic information as would be required for this to be evidence of evolution.

c] The big woof woofs have simply developed within existing genetic parameters and there is no evidence that these have been exceeded, even by allegedly 'positive' mutations, in any species - ever. [Yes I am all too aware of the effects of mutations but the evidence that these are ever truly beneficial, is non-existent.]

d] One must wonder what wild conclusions Mr Klingerberg would have drawn had he been faced with three fossils; one of a great dane, one of a spaniel and one of a chihuahua.

I think we can all hazard a reasonable guess at that one.

The boy is back.

So, Tony Blair kept quiet about his Christianity as people in this country do not like having such things thrust in their faces.
Well - actions speak louder than words.
Would he really want me to publish the rather extensive list of anti-Christian acts which were brought in by his government?
Remind me. Wasn't he the man at the top?

The joys of semi retirement.

This Blog will now not be updated until next weekend.
Have a nice few days - I certainly shall!

What price justice?

Brown is to cut £102 million from the Court Service Budget and this will have some knock-on effects into legal aid.
As one angry letterwriter in a newspaper recently commented: "What do I care! I am middle class and so can't afford to go to court. Justice, whatever that is, is only available to those at the top of our society and at the bottom."
Oh dear. He is absolutely right.

True inflation.

Yes. The government are lying again. Surprise, surprise.
My latest inflation figure is from September and is apparently 1.8% as lovingly produced by the CPI [Consumer Prices Index].
So, eggs, milk, bread, petrol, coffee, mortgages, insurance and Council Tax have not exceeded this level then?
Ah well, that is not the point. Some maybe, but the CPI does not cover all expenditure, it is in fact quite limited in its scope, and so the 1.8% will undoubtedly be true for the prices it does cover. The lie is in the countless price rises which wily, labour politicians have decided not to include.
Lying by omission is still lying. In a Court of Law you are sworn to tell "the WHOLE truth".

LINKS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7000298.stm

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/12/04/ninflation04.xml

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=501124&in_page_id=1770

Meals on three wheels.

Our caring government is allowing the running down of the Meals on Wheels Service.
What? Have they spent all the money [that is OUR money]on the EU, pointless wars, funding illegal immigrants and the workshy? Starved Councils of funding?
Councils too filled with bureaucrats?

I do not know which level of power is where I should best be directing my opprobium - what I do know is that I am fizzing with anger!

LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=495511&in_page_id=1770

Fair Trade.

According the highly perceptive Andrew Alexander, Fair Trade is subject to the immutable Law of Unintended Consequences.
Even if he is only partially correct, it would appear that what, on the surface seems a truly excellent way of helping poor in the Third World, is actually working to the detriment of the very poorest..
Oh dear. I do hope he is wrong but suspect that we could be looking once again at a scenario similar to the damage done by simply giving aid to poor nations which made their problems significantly worse. It took aid charities decades to get the point.
If AA is correct, a way out of this must be found sooner than later.
[You do not want to hear what I would like to do to those who use Fair Trade as an easy means for profiteering!]

Read the link below to follow the worrying logic.

LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/columnists/columnists.html?in_article_id=495808&in_page_id=1772&in_author_id=248

Hate crime fiasco.

'Hate crimes' are regularly put forward by the politically correct as being 'worse' than other crimes. At a time when sentencing has never been so feeble, judges and magistrates are instructed to 'crack down' on offences against identifiable minorities EVEN IF there is no evidence whatsoever that the crime was committed because that person hailed from a minority. Even if it were true, is it really worse than somebody targeting me because they do not like bald people with glasses, and if so how?
Yes. It really is that crazy.
How do I know? - I have done the magistrate training!
Let us consider several scenarios: 1] I am robbed in the street and struck in the face with a sock full of wet sand by somebody with a fairly poor criminal record. My attacker might go to prison. 2] Same crime but the victim is classed as 'vulnerable' as they are 10 years older than me making them an OAP. The attacker will inevitably get a custodial sentence of probably not more than 2 years. 3] Same crime but the victim is black or homosexual. The attacker will receive at least 4 years at Crown Court.
You can say that the offence is exacerbated against an OAP but why am I valued less than somebody who just happens to be black or homosexual and probably younger? {Crimes by non whites on whites do not qualify, of course.}
Is justice really blind any more?

Andrew McKlintock.

"It is now the case that if you sit on an adoption panel in Britain, you may no longer act in the best interests of children by insisting upon placing them for adoption with a mother and a father; nor may you freely exercise your conscientious refusal to place them in a household where you suspect their interests might be harmed. Today, the Employment Appeal Tribunal ruled against Andrew McClintock, a Justice of the Peace and a member of an adoption panel. He had asked to be relieved of the duty to hear cases which might raise the possibility of children being handed to same-sex couples for adoption. This was because
...he considered that there was insufficient evidence that this was in the child’s best interests and he felt that children should not be treated like guinea pigs in the name of politically correct legislation. Since the Department of Constitutional Affairs refused to allow him exercise this conscientious objection, McClintock had no option but to resign from the adoption panel. As he is a Christian, he believed that this constituted discrimination and harassment. The Tribunal ruled not only that this was not the case, since McClintock had not indicated that his objections were rooted in any religious or philosophical belief." COP OUT!

Post Office closures.

Ministers have delayed the closure of hundreds of post offices until after next year's local elections. Cunning, eh? Wicked, evil, electioneering. They want 2,500 branches to shut by the end of 2008 - but decisions on which ones will go have yet not been made. Please remember that the dead hand of the EU may be detected behind ALL of this, something which the government has never made public. [Postal Directives: 97/67/EC and 2002/39/EC.]

LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=495466&in_page_id=1770

Big Bang is whimpering.

I have just caught up with a rather major piece of information from 2006 wherein the so-called Big Bang Theory is discredited - yet again.
In addition to many scientific proofs already extant that the BB is just hot air, as well as the work by Dr Robert Gentry - already covered on this site - there is now the issue that one of the alleged ‘proofs’ of the big bang model of origins is said to be the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). This is claimed to be the ‘afterglow’ of the original ‘explosion’.
To put it all in layman's terms. "It don't work!"
If you wish to see the actual scientific base of this, please check the link below.

LINK: http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/4643/

1 Corinthians 7, Verses 3, 4 and 5.

We all know that Christians are against sex - the anti-Gospel types have advertised this fact ad nauseam in order to ensure that ordinary non-Christians would never dream of turning to God under any circumstances. It may be a lie but it is a very good tactic nonetheless.
Actually, the Bible is VERY pro-sex BUT only in its correct context which remains marriage between one man and one woman.


The husband should fulfill his duty toward his wife, and likewise the wife toward her husband.

A wife does not have authority over her own body, but rather her husband, and similarly a husband does not have authority over his own body, but rather his wife.

Do not deprive each other, except perhaps by mutual consent for a time, to be free for prayer, but then return to one another, so that Satan may not tempt you through your lack of self-control.

SO. Not only is sex okay, verse 5 makes it perfectly clear that it is an OBLIGATION.

The Azusa Street Revival.

It is old. It is dated. It is well worth the reading. [Go on, you know you want to!] Download the link.
What happened to shake the lethargy out of Christianity just 101 years ago?
Were lessons learned for the Church and by the Church?
Decide for yourself.

LINK: http://dariusthemede.tripod.com/azusa/

The Sun is not shining.

Apparently the Unification Church which abandoned the UK many moons ago is getting ready to return.
This is one of the very worst cults ever to grace the planet in recent centuries.
Its incredibly rich founder, the Korean Kim Il Myung Sung Moon, is the egregious leader who considers himself the 'messiah returned' and from whom arose the sect's nickname - The Moonies.
Beware! Beware! Beware!

ID cards - a disaster waiting to happen.

So. The government in all its efficient wonder, has just lost, mislaid or had stolen the personal details of a mere 25 million people, thus making literally millions vulnerable to identity fraud.
What a tremendous advert for their proposed ID cards! [Tony's idea - Gordon carries it on. ]
Remember the mantra? - "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry about."?
Really?

Go John, go.

Archbishop says embryo Bill undermines fathers!



The Archbishop of York has spoken out against Government plans to make it easier for lesbian couples to become parents through IVF.

Another winner from John Sentamu.

Well done.

Congratulations to the Catholic Bishops who have been urging catholic schools to boycott the charity Amnesty for its support of abortion.
I have long boycotted this front for leftwing activism which has always had phenomenal and highly disproportionate publicity granted by the leftwing media.
At first sight, a charity which fights torture worldwide looks a most worthy destination for your hard earned cash.
However, I find it impossible to believe that this undiscriminating group which fights the death penalty in all cases and situations thus protecting the violent and guilty, can then support abortion which butchers the innocent.
Just what kind of morality is that?
It is also noteworthy that they are always the first and loudest voice to criticise our troops and police when placed in dangerous, difficult and life-threatening situations.
They are close to number one slot on my rather lengthy, charity blacklist.
Three more from the rejected top four are:
The RSPB, The RSPCA and the NSPCC.
I am however, prepared to lend regular support to: Lepra, Sense, Tearfund, Salvation Army, British Legion, the PDSA and The Songbird Survival Trust, Lindsey Blind, Christian Aid - others too if I find they have no axe to grind.

LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=494588&in_page_id=1770

Poverty - is it knocking?

My second son spent a lengthy spell in Malawi working to help the fight against poverty.
Tell him that a fifth of kids in Scunthorpe and a third in Hull are living in poverty and he would laugh in your face.
[I myself have seen the street urchins in Port Said and the appalling conditions in rural Egypt.]
Not having as much as others - very often [but clearly not always] because of: lifestyle choices, refusal to work or budget - well, is that really poverty?
[Remember that in a society where the average wage is £100k and you are on £50k - this will be referred to by social scientists as relative poverty.]
Social workers and visitors to many households 'in poverty' have told me countless stories of money spent on:-
expensive hair dos/ designer jeans at £70 per pair instead of £8 jeans from supermarkets/ same with trainers/ smoking/ regular pub visits/ gambling/ lottery tickets/ takeaways 7 times a week and consequently no money for essentials for the children. There will of course be sticks of furniture, a computer, a widescreen TV and an expensive stereo all bought 'on the drip'.The mobile phone will reign supreme.
Many of these have more in benefits than the people working their guts out next door. So is this 'poverty'?

Why do what must be a majority of the 'poor' not visit bargain shops? Why do they only go to supermarkets and shun markets? Why would so many 'not be seen dead' in clearance shops/ pound shops and secondhand shops? - Indeed, if poverty is so rife, why are secondhand shops in terminal decline?
I use Lidls, Aldi and Netto to make my budget stretch to the maximum. So why are these shops never crowded?

I think I'll check with my 86 year old mother to find out what REAL poverty is - she lived it in the 30s and is deeply embittered by this piffle.

In a nation with the worst Old Age Pensions in W. Europe, perhaps we should be looking more towards the elderly who avoid food in order to be able to heat their homes.
They are rather closer to the poverty line than families on the benefit levels described below who are oft chosen as examples.

* Read the posting for Saturday June the 16th 2007 if you do not believe me. The relative figures WILL shock you.
Note the contradiction from Ed Balls reported on the 20th november: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=495023&in_page_id=1770
Also:-
LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=493281&in_page_id=1770

Sun readers.

It was probably Jasper Carrott who brought criticism of Sunreaders to the fore and I have no real problem with the barbed joke.
Even so, it must be admitted that the Mirror and the Daily Star are actually significantly worse and pitched even lower.
I buy The Sun on a Saturday as Mum likes their TV magazine and having been in a school staffroom which had the Mirror delivered and once having bought a Star on an airport when it was either that or the Guardian, I feel qualified to comment.
The Sun beats the other two rags into a cocked hat.

Somalis.

I shall take the risk of being accused of racism in order to reveal facts I recently uncovered in the press and which I shall add to personal knowledge from S. Yorkshire.
Somalis in the UK ,whose numbers run into hundreds of thousands, have an atrocious record, indeed by far the worst of any immigrant group for being in work. A minute 19% are employed and thus 81% are either unemployed or economically inactive. [Compare the latter figure to Indians where this figure is a highly respectable 25%]
80% of Somalis live in social housing - compared to a tiny 21% of Irish immigrants.
At 40%, Somalis have the highest benefit claims of any identifiable group.
Several years ago, long before a Somali gang had murdered one of his colleagues in Bradford, I asked a policeman about racist attitudes in Sheffield and he said the police were generally very happy dealing with all ethnic communities with the single exception of the Somalis, whom he personally detested, as their malicious attitudes to police, law and order and society in general were consistently self-serving and despicable.
I write this on here knowing that some will be horrified that this has been brought to light. Just because it is politically incorrect to report negative comments about a racial group, does not mean that facts should be concealed.
I shall however, make no personal comment.
Incidentally, was Somalia ever a part of the Empire?

Embarrassing UHP minerals.

Heard of Coesite, Eclogite, micro diamonds, blueschist and any other UHP minerals?
Probably not. They should not exist - but they do.
When I say "should not exist", I of course mean in the context of uniformitarian, evolutionary geology.
Desperate attempts have been made to explain their existence - all pretty lame. The 'fact of long geological ages' cannot of course, be abandoned.
What a dilemma!
Check the link below for all the lovely, evolutionist-embarrassing, scientific details.

LINK: http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/5392

Pre-sentence reports - a timewasting joke.

I was a magistrate and latterly chairman for about ten years .
During that period I read many pre-sentence reports and not one in ten was actually helpful in sentencing.
Unfortunately, whenever a sentence much above a fine was going to kick in, such reports were obligatory.
I once asked the Chief Clerk to The Justices about this and he said if somebody were to be inevitably going to prison, a report was not required. All good theory.
Court clerks ensured that one was always requested - many causing an absurd 3 week delay in concluding the case.
When the reports were received in serious cases, they were as good as useless as the Probation Service refused ever to recommend custody!
This piece of PC lunacy effectively invalidated all reports - whether custody was contemplated or not as the full scale was not represented.
Laughable if it were not all so terribly serious.