Sheldon hypocrisy?

The very popular Big Bang Theory on Channel 4 is fine comedy and strangely, is especially loved by those kinds of people who find themselves particular targets of this Blog.
The main source of the humour is that the leading character, Sheldon, whilst being incredibly intelligent, is both socially maladjusted and a sufferer of Obsessive/Compulsive Disorder.
It was Frankie Howerd who always said 'Never mock the afflicted' but it was the liberal left who have outlawed any such humour.
How odd then that the politically correct are permitted to make an exception with this programme.
I do hope that nobody accuses them of being hypocritical.

Nice work in Hull!

Preventing Reoffending Project (PRP)

'The PRP project offers one to one mentoring for offenders serving sentences of twelve months or under. Key support workers offer assistance to offenders within the pathways that are identified as encouraging re-Offending. These are, lack of aspirations, children and families, accommodation, health, alcohol and drugs. Key support workers will assist the offender towards a position whereby they can secure and sustain employment with the overall aim of reducing employment rates, thus reducing the financial burden on the economy, reducing reoffending and increasing welfare provision.'

It seems that the scheme is having some positive results. Good! Punish then rehabilitate - that's the way to do it!
An 80% drop in short term re-offending is spot on!

Poles apart.

'British workers have been turned away from jobs in a local factory – for not speaking Polish. Cooked meat manufacturer Forza AW effectively barred anyone but Poles for applying for jobs on its production line in East Anglia by insisting all staff speak the language fluently. The company (lamely) claimed it was necessary as all health and safety training was conducted in Polish.'

Well why wouldn't an employer do this? You can now freely employ workers at cheaper rates. Had this been the other way around there would have been an outcry - but currently, the silence from 'the usual suspects' of the left is deafening.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1257784/Biggest-Asda-meat-supplier-excludes-English-speakers-instructions-given-Polish.html#ixzz0i92izXtY

Devolution or evolution?

'Our brains are shrinking, according to scientists who have recreated a 28,000-year-old skull from remains found in France.
The French team, which claims to have produced one of the best replicas yet of an early modern human’s cranium, says it is up to 20 per cent bigger than ours.'

Interestingly, in a similar vein, language is clearly getting simpler and not more complex. This is a universal phenomenon and precisely the opposite of what would be expected in an evolutionary model.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1257678/Replica-big-skull-28-000-years-ago-suggests-human-brains-started-shrink.html#ixzz0i8xPDKnU

This is the logic we are having thrust at us.

Fact One: There are some three million unemployed, give or take.
Fact Two: We need immigrant workers to come into the country to do basic jobs.

Somewhere along the line - somebody is telling porkies!

Fancy some marxism? - Are you sure?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1257713/PETER-HITCHENS-In-Soviet-suburbs-Hell-blasted-avenues-Mogadishu-I-saw-society-become.html

Augustine of Hippo.

"Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it."

Augustine of Hippo.

Yorkshire Forward.

One of very few positives on offer from the tories if elected, is the promised abolition of that appalling quango, Yorkshire Forward.

Labour & Lib Dems are jumping up and down saying that it will cause job losses.

I never welcome unemployment - but this is certainly the exception to prove the rule!

Yorkshire Forward is the EU's incredibly expensive, lickspittle, propaganda machine in this area.

The money could be better spent - and might create some more useful employment.

Are we surprised?

'It appears that more than 360,000 people have been forced to move home in the past year because of irritating neighbours, new research indicates.
The number of house-owners who have moved away to escape nightmare neighbours has increased by a third over the last two years, according to a study of 2,000 adults by Halifax Home Insurance.'

When you really need the Law - it will not help you today. Whether it be that you are afflicted by: crime, appalling neighbours, malevolent employees, squatters on your property, people who owe you money - forget it! The Law is on the side of the wrongdoer and the so-called European Human Rights Act is always more likely to support them than you!

AOL news.

Punishment.

Some Christians, mostly those of a liberal persuasion, seem quite embarrassed to be seen supporting punishment as a concept and I cannot grasp why this should be so.

The whole of Christianity is based on the fact that punishment awaits those who reject God the Son.

Jesus Himself warns of punishments to come, namely 'millstones' as the lesser evil. The two crucified with Jesus are seen as having merited punishment - as indeed was the case with Barabbas.

The problem arises for those who decontextualise the 'turning the other cheek' principle which is clearly aimed at the individual and not society!

When the individual responds, then that is 'vengeance' - nothing more, nothing less.

When society responds with punishment,'vengeance' is simply not an issue - this is retribution.

As I have written previously, "Revenge is personal: retribution is neutral." The two are emphatically NOT the same thing!

Parents who punish their children do not do so out of hatred but out of love.

More buffoonery in high places!

"The killers of James Bulger should not have been prosecuted for his murder, the new Children’s Commissioner says today in a call for the age of criminal responsibility to be raised from 10 to 12 years old.
In an exclusive interview with The Times, Maggie Atkinson argues that children under the age of 12 should not be prosecuted for any crime."

Such detached-from-reality people as this lady should be removed from any position of responsibility whatsoever! Society simply cannot afford them any longer!
How can there possibly be a pretence that 10 and 11 year olds do not know right from wrong? - I have taught enough of them over years to recognise absolute piffle when I see it!
A large part of the criminalising of our nation stems from the failure to address bad behaviour at a sufficiently young age. Where morality has not been inculcated into a child, 'fear' must form a large proportion of the dealing with miscreants. Precisely where in the system can this be found?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article7060549.ece

The only good Labour MP in generations!

"Surprisingly, it's not just ambitious Tory MPs with dreams of ministerial office who will be waiting by their phones the day after the General Election if David Cameron becomes Prime Minister.
The maverick Labour MP Frank Field, who has had turbulent relations with Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, may also receive a call."

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1257613/The-politician-guts-speak-immigration-Frank-Field-reveals-candid-opinion-future-Britain.html#ixzz0i2AWscsg

The well-meaning Rev.

The Reverend George Hargreaves runs The Christian Party - an inconsequential, political group which has appeared under various guises in recent years.
I just adore the man! An amazing Christian; straightforward; dedicated; sincere.
BUT - oh dear! Heaven protect us from the terminally well-meaning!
I have just seen him on Revelation TV where he wisely failed to mention that his party's intervention in the EU Elections was directly responsible for the election of Nick Griffin, BNP leader, as an MEP in the North West!

He seems utterly oblivious to the fact that he is actually doing more harm than good.
(Check the voting in the North West for yourself if you do not believe me.)
Furthermore, only a few percent of the electorate would ever vote for a Christian Party just because it exists and this rate will never change until after a massive revival - and not necessarily even then - not even under the most beneficial system of PR.

Last September in Southport, I was staggered by the number of Christians I met who belong to UKIP. As far as I know, no research has been done on this but I just could not believe that other parties have as many Christians in their ranks.

In politics, Christians must be 'as wise as serpents, as gentle as doves' - the Reverend Hargreaves has only accomplished half of this necessity.

The IRONY contained on that billboard is just startling!

Manchester man bullied to death.

'A man with learning difficulties was “tormented to death” after years of being bullied by yobs, his neighbours have claimed.'

When my Dad was a local Police Constable, were somebody persecuted in this manner - it could have happened once, it may even have happened twice but it would not have happened three times.

THIS INCIDENT HAPPENED OVER A PERIOD YEARS?????

LINK: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article7059067.ece

Which doctors are preferred?

"The authorities always think they know best, and psychiatrists are invested with all the moral authority which witch doctors were once accorded in primitive tribes."

Stephen Glover.

As a response to the trick cyclists who had effectively claimed that Jon Venables had been cured!

'The world owes me living.'

Some recently have argued that the country 'has not gone to the dogs.'
Proof otherwise:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1257083/Hard-work-No-thanks-Meet-Generation-Y.html

Labour has no concept of fairness.

Andy Burnham, The Health Minister, yesterday announced the new Labour 'Death Tax'.

On top of the iniquitous inheritance tax already in place, this idea beggars belief!

Some 17.5 million would be affected and their estate robbed of 10% of its value.

As far as I can ascertain there will be no lower threshold.

Why is this so wrong? - Well, two reasons for a starter:

1) It is immoral. "Ah, somebody in your family has died - good - give us a chunk of your family's money, then!" This is not taxation but is much closer to extortion.

2) These are monies on which tax has already been paid!

Tragically, once again, Labour has no concept about ordinary people. Do they really think that this will encourage people to save up for old age so as not to be a burden on the state?

The thinking is simply moronic!

The amount of people who will become an extra burden on the public purse because of this could run into six figures - but more likely SEVEN!

Have they no concept of the 'Law of Diminishing Returns?

Operation Bernhard.

Although largely unsuccessful, the Nazi idea contained in Operation Bernhard was brilliant.

As early as 1939, the plan had been to flood Britain with forged five pound notes thus destabilising the currency and causing damaging inflation. Fortunately, the plan was foiled to a very large degree. (Remember Michael Elphick in 'Private Schultz'?)

After several conversations last night about the current situation in our universities, I was reminded of this little piece of history.

As a nation we have diluted the quality of students at university; inevitably the consequence has been to cause standards to plummet; we have given large numbers of young people inflated opinions of their own abilities; we have flooded the country with useless and semi useless degrees and we have undermined a system once renowned for its excellence.

Naturally, it means that basic jobs are demanding ever higher levels of entry - all to no good purpose. Many post graduates are unable to find work and, with their debts added to the mix, many are beginning to feel pretty resentful.

Furthermore, the nation cannot afford this exercise in pointlessness.

We should return to a system based on merit and ability. The best should be rewarded with a free education and a proper grant.

If anybody outside this group wants to pay the full cost of a degree and support for themselves as they study - then so be it but we must abandon a system based on marxist, anti-elitist thinking.

Supreme Court shame!

To our eternal shame as a society, Lillian Ladele, the Christian registrar from Islington, has lost her right to a Christian conscience in the new Supreme Court.

(See earlier postings on the 23rd of May and 11th of July 2008 and also note how last Sunday's posting about conscience proved eerily prophetic.)

I now cannot wait for the outcome when a muslim registrar takes the same attitude and follows the same course as she did.

How will the PC brigade be able to respond then in the face of this precedent?

To The Supreme Court a raspberry from me and a LoonyTunesWatch coconut from the Blog itself!

RSPB adopts a PC attitude again!

'Although sparrowhawks can eat large numbers of young birds, charities such as the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds argue there is no evidence they are to blame for the 40 per cent fall.'

The RSPB remain unrepentant about their shunning calls for major culls on magpies - I spoke to them about this yesterday.

As sparrowhawks - heavily encouraged to breed - red kites, crows and other predators multiply, the RSPB buries its head in the sand and pretends that 'other causes' must be found.

I love songbirds and so long ago resigned from the RSPB when I discovered that they did not share my attitudes.

The Songbird Survival Trust is the only place where birdlovers can now reasonably place their hard-earned cash.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1256478/Where-songbirds-Ask-hungry-sparrowhawk.html#ixzz0hfCmAdjg

What is the point?

"What is the point?" - "Why write a Blog?" - "What good can it possibly do?" - "Why spend so much time in its production?

The simple answer is that I have to: I cannot sit idly by and watch catastrophe unfold around me without making some attempt to stop the tide. Canute-like I may be but my conscience is clear.
The two things most under threat in this nation (world) are The Gospel Unto Salvation and Democracy.
I believe in both and both are threatened from the same source - the atheistic, politically correct left - liberal or otherwise.

I try to expose what they are doing to public scrutiny and interest; I encourage opposition to them; I try to supply valid arguments which decent people can learn and use themselves in the fray.

Regular readers can do their small part by advertising the Blog to those of similar inclination as themselves:

http://christianityisnotleftwing.blogspot.com/

The 'cunning' plan backfires.

The most recent opinion polls are strongly indicating 'a hung parliament' and it is entirely Cameron's fault.
On a personal level - I couldn't care less which of the LibLabCon is in power - it is of minute relevance to life in this nation today.

Cameron thought he could be clever and move the tories to the left at the same time as guaranteeing that his core voters would stay on board.

Two problems: The first is that the centre left in this country was already rather crowded and the second is that many of his core voters are clearly planning to stay home on election day.

BACKFIRE!

Instead of putting 'clear blue water' between the tories and their opponents - all he has succeeded in doing is to appear devious, unprincipled and a policy-free zone.
He DESERVES to lose - the trouble is - they ALL do!