Prayer for India much needed.

Hindu extremists are accused of murdering a pastor in Assam – just days before the he was due to finish building a new church for his congregation.
Pastor Ajit Bansi, a missionary for Gospel For Asia, was ambushed by gunmen as he went to buy materials for the final stage of his construction project. His three companions were also shot dead on May 20.
Pastor Ajit served a church of about 60 Christians and leaves behind a wife and two small children.

Release International.

If 'global warming' is happening .... how odd!

The head of the UK's Climatic Research Unit, an avid believer in man-made climate change, recently admitted there has been no statistically significant increase in global temperature for 15 years, a period during which atmospheric CO2 has continued to rise.

Climate change?

'Margaret Thatcher was one of the earliest politicians to make claims that the 'the climate was changing' back in the 80s and this is frequently pointed out by 'warmists'.
They have disingenuously ignored the her later volte face brought to us courtesy of Chris Booker in the Sunday Telegraph:-
'She voiced precisely the fundamental doubts about the warming scare that have since become familiar to us. Pouring scorn on the "doomsters", she questioned the main scientific assumptions used to drive the scare, from the conviction that the chief force shaping world climate is CO2, rather than natural factors such as solar activity, to exaggerated claims about rising sea levels. She mocked Al Gore and the futility of "costly and economically damaging" schemes to reduce CO2 emissions. She cited the 2.5C rise in temperatures during the Medieval Warm Period as having had almost entirely beneficial effects. She pointed out that the dangers of a world getting colder are far worse than those of a CO2-enriched world growing warmer. She recognised how distortions of the science had been used to mask an anti-capitalist, Left-wing political agenda which posed a serious threat to the progress and prosperity of mankind.'

LINK: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/7823477/Was-Margaret-Thatcher-the-first-climate-sceptic.html

Cameron grabs a headline.

The PM claims that he is going to 'gut' absurd 'elf n safety' legislation.

Headline-grabbing - certainly! Will it happen? - No. Of course not! A token effort only.

But this rubbish is so deeply rooted that, even if it were genuinely pursued, I strongly suspect that he will not be able to eradicate it AND he will have more pressing matters to attend to, I suspect!

(I wonder if the finger of blame will be pointed at where it should be? - Brussels!)

You were warned!

Expected cuts in immigration? Expected 'toughness on crime'? Expected 'reining in of the EU'?

What! With a tory government? - No way!

Today's tories are part of the liberal left!

Oh. You want proof?

Try this:

'Justice Secretary Ken Clarke suggested millions could be saved from the £2.2 billion prisons budget by jailing fewer offenders and slashing sentences' (Daily Telegraph.)

Screeeeeeaaaammmmm!!!!!!

Car prices should rise massively.

As there are a number of irresponsible car drivers, a solution to this problem is to have 'minimum pricing' on all cars whether new or second hand. How about a baseline price of £25k?

It would have the following advantages:
1) It would get poorer people off the roads.
2) There would be fewer people to use cars irresponsibly.
3) It would raise money for government and most importantly,
4) It would punish the innocent majority to get at the guilty minority.
Perfect!
Those readers who had perhaps thought that this would be a great plan for alcohol - still like the principle when governments extrapolate from their idea?

Bullying.

A report out this last weekend suggests that of all the suicides of youngsters in the age group 10 - 14, around half are due to bullying.
I am not surprised in the slightest. It is the single most difficult situation to deal with in any school today.
Here are some of the problems:
1) Bullying is usually well concealed and cannot be easily proved.
2) All too often, parents of a bully will take their child's side irrespective of logic - often threatening legal action when investigations are made. If the bullying is proved - they will go into denial.
3) Potential witnesses are also frequently in fear.
4) A complaint by the victim, once known by the bully, will often make the situation even more serious.
5) Frequently, a claim of bullying results when the victim turns on their oppressor and the latter deliberately turns him/herself into the victim!
6) Much bullying - especially by girls - is simply organised nastiness in order to alienate an individual and cannot be tackled realistically without the situation worsening.
7) Some claims of bullying are simple attention-seeking and untrue.
8) In today's world, far too many accusations result from children who have no concept of 'banter'. Seemingly, many children are much more 'thin-skinned' than in the past. When these hit the workplace - they'll be in big trouble unless they adjust rapidly!

There are other categories but I do hope that this piece shows how sorting out this dreadful problem is like tiptoeing through a minefield.
With the best will in the world - success in dealing with such matters is extremely elusive and this report shows the possible consequences!

LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1286240/Bullying-linked-half-suicides-10--14-year-olds.html

Wind farms - a reality check?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/7823681/Does-money-grow-in-wind-farms.html

Pagan police!

Humberside police is one force which is now giving time off to 'pagan officers' up to eight times a year for various festivals!
I am guessing that most of these will be just "havin' a larf" to get some extra time off but should we really be encouraging such irresponsibility in any guise?
It is disgraceful that Chris Crowley - a leading apostate - was given time on today's 'God slot' on BBC Radio Humberside.
Blame that nonsense called 'inclusivity'!


Source: Radio Humbeside.

Warning to believers.

Hebrews 6.
4) For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
5) And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,
6) If they shall fall away - to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.

Why do they say it?

Funny, really. They say you can't judge by appearance!

Message to slimmers.

It is a little known fact that the small bits and pieces of broken biscuit at the bottom of the biscuit barrel are actually calorie-free and will not impinge on your dieting in any way!

Yeeees. Yorkshire Post today.

From: Peter Bye, Park Crescent, Addingham.

REGARDING the Baftas (Yorkshire Post, June 7), what is an antondeck and what does it do? Can anyone help?

Quite!

Catherine Zeta-Jones

An honour? - For the sake of all pity - WHY?

Gun law.

An interesting contrast in the wake of the Whitehaven tragedy is the contradictory attitudes towards gun possession.
Some have been extremely rapid to call for even more draconian gun controls but on the other side we have been treated to 'the sounds of silence'.
How many calls have you heard for the routine arming of the Police? - A few? None?
Odd huh? Derrick Bird could have been stopped on several occasions during his rampage had the police en route been armed.
How many innocent lives might this have saved?
Police already lose their lives to criminals much more frequently since they lost the protection of the rope back in 1964.
If debate there must be - then surely it has to be on whether or not the police should be armed.

Wow. Birdies.

In our magpie-ravaged, avian wasteland, I was granted a major treat this morning whilst taking my morning constitutional.

A pair of goldfinches. They really made my day!

VERMIN! SCUM! DREGS OF HUMANITY!

'Taliban militants have executed a seven-year-old boy they accused of being a spy, it emerged today.
The child was abducted from his home and taken to a neighbouring village where he was put on trial.His captors found him guilty of working for the government.
The child was then hanged in public in the village of Heratiyan, in the southern Sangin district of Helmand province.'

I have tried before on here to differentiate between sin and evil. The two are not interchangeable in meaning. Surely, it is no coincidence that when Jesus told us in Mark of 'the [only] unpardonable sin' being 'blasphemy against God's Holy Spirit', it was in a context of pharisees who had turned good and evil around. They witnessed 'good' and recognised Him as 'evil'.
It is extremely unlikely that the opposite will be considered any less heinous.
'God is not willing that any should perish' but clearly some use their free will to put themselves beyond salvation.
Never forget one thing though - 'With God, all things are possible!'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1285508/Taliban-execute-boy-seven-accused-spy.html#ixzz0qWXyZsfZ

Mark this well!

Every chapter of Mark's Gospel bar one, Mark 13, is followed for the Religious Studies GCSE.

Hmm. Why so, I wonder?

Ah, it is the chapter which deals with Christ's Second Coming.

Mustn't let youngsters know about that, must we?

Heartfelt.

'Short people are at a far higher risk of heart disease than those who are taller, research suggests.A major review of three million people found shorter adults were around 50 per cent more likely to have heart disease, have a heart attack or die from the disease than those who tower above them.In the study men under 5ft 5in and women under 5ft were considered short while men over 5ft 10in and women over 5ft 6in were considered tall.
'Shorter adults were around 50 per cent more likely to have heart disease than their taller counterparts. The research, published in The European Heart Journal, involved more than 52 separate studies. Lead author Dr Tuula Paajanen, from the University of Tampere in Finland, said their review was attempting to resolve years of conflicting evidence on the link between height and heart disease.'

Simple observation has always led me to believe that this is a major truth. I know only one overweight person who has died young from a heart attack and he was not 'a bit overweight' but was grossly obese and with a poor family history of longevity.
Virtually all of those whom I have known perish in this way have not been so much small, as slight in build.
I am a tad overweight - so I have a rather personal hope that this holds true!

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1285208/Short-people-face-greater-risk-heart-disease.html#ixzz0qR6y0rMv

'Thermal hypothesis': the nonsense never ends!

'The first humans may have started walking upright because the place where they lived was so hot, new research suggests.
Scientists discovered that the Turkana Basin of Kenya, long held as the cradle of human evolution, was even hotter millions of years ago than it is now.
Daytime temperatures would have been well into the late 90s every single day.
The discovery lends weight to the so-called ‘thermal hypothesis’ of human evolution, which states that mankind first started standing upright because of the intense heat.'

Phew! Our evolution-creating pals are having a bit of a field day here!

Well. That's really won me over. The explanation is just so - er - well - sensible. Perhaps 'logical' is the word I really needed.

It certainly explains why homo erectus is - so - er - upright.

In fact it also explains perfectly why there are so many lions, jackals, cheetahs, zebra and antelope walking upright today!

(In fact if you check the photo you will see that I have even included a picture of an 'upright zebra' to help in understanding.)

'Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1285270/New-evidence-humans-walked-upright-hot.html#ixzz0qQynNdw3

Something to help.

Definition: unitarianism. Noun: apostasy.

[Middle English apostasie, from Old French, from Late Latin apostasia, defection, from Late Greek apostasi, from Greek apostasis, revolt, from aphistanai, aposta-, to revolt : apo-, apo- + histanai, to stand, place; see st- in Indo-European roots.]

Charlie.

The Head of The Church of England-in-waiting, Prince Charles, yesterday had some 'interesting points' to make.
'Prince Charles yesterday urged the world to follow Islamic 'spiritual principles' in order to protect the environment.
In an hour-long speech, the heir to the throne argued that man's destruction of the world was contrary to the scriptures of all religions - but particularly those of Islam.'

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