Better news for Asia Bibi?

'The family of christian, Asia Bibi, has gone into hiding ahead of reports of her imminent pardon for the death sentence for 'blasphemy' in Pakistan.
Partners of Release International say there has been an angry reaction from Muslim militants following media coverage of a possible presidential stay of execution. Fearing a violent backlash Asia’s family has moved to a place of safety.'

Release International.

Soros.

Is billionaire George Soros really the main source of funding behind countless left wing and anti-capitalist organisations?

Prisons ombudsman earns a coconut.

A LoonyTunesWatch coconut is hereby awarded to the Prisons Ombudsman for insisting that this murderous butcher and lifetime criminal, Colin Gunn, must be addressed as 'Mr' by prison staff.
But then again - I suppose that it is a 'respect' that he has earned by his actions!
Source: AOL News.

How to be terminally sad: an occasional series.

Want to learn how to be a real saddo? - It's not all that difficult as proved in this easy to follow first lesson.

Avoid the biting satire in The Kinks' "Dedicated Follower of Fashion" - and you too can become 'a fashion sheep'!

All you have to do is to pretend that fashion has some meaning or purpose in the great scheme of things.

Secondly, go out and purchase goods which are over-priced but 'in fashion' thereby wasting massive amounts of silly money.

At this stage you will have already become a true 'saddo' BUT if you should wish to develop it all a step further - buy fashion magazines, study them and gain an 'insight' into the so-called brilliance of a few huckster designers and their bulimic, cocaine-stuffed models.

Done it!

Orwell.

A committed anti-fascist and socialist, the starry-eyed Eric Blair - otherwise known as George Orwell - went off to fight against Franco in the Spanish Civil War.
Having nearly been executed by his own side, having witnessed countless atrocities and having finally recognised the hypocrisy of the hard left and stalinists - he headed for home.
Some years later, he rewarded us with his magnificent expose of political extremes in 'Animal Farm.'

Super leftie toryism embraces evil legislation.

'Employers are to be allowed to discriminate in favour of women, black and disabled job candidates under controversial new laws.
Lib Dem equalities minister Lynne Featherstone insisted the shake-up announced yesterday was not about ‘political correctness’ but making the workplace fairer.
The legislation was drawn up by Labour’s deputy leader Harriet Harman but has been adopted by the Coalition.'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1335054/Employers-given-green-light-favour-women-jobseekers-Harmans-equality-law-adopted-Coalition.html#ixzz171mxRFWE

Barnsley.

There are to be massive protests in Barnsley against the 'cuts'. I suppose 'whatever floats your boat'.
The irony is that prominent in all of this is the Labour group on the council!
Labour! - I ask you!
Who wrecked the economy? Who stupidly let the bankers off the leash?

Frank:always on the money.

A collapse in ‘tough love’ parenting means many children’s chances of succeeding in life are wrecked before they even start school, David Cameron’s poverty adviser says today.
Former Labour minister Frank Field says marriage and parenting lessons should be introduced in schools, developmental checks brought in for every child at two-and-a-half and benefits withdrawn from feckless mothers and fathers.

A Labour MP like they used to be. Sigh!

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1335229/Generations-damaged-soft-parenting-says-poverty-tsar-wants-marriage-lessons-children.html#ixzz171hjKrgm

Photo of our greatest ever general.

Arthur Wellesley, the first Duke of Wellington.

Was this in your newspaper?

Christians in Egypt are calling for prayer amid threats of extremist attack and heightened anti-Christian sentiment.
Months of raised tension between the Coptic community and the Muslim majority have come to a head with the news that extremists who have killed scores of Christians in Iraq in recent weeks may also target believers in Egypt.
Prayer meetings are being held at churches throughout Egypt amid heightened security.

Release International.

The Boxer Rebellion.

In China the Boxer Rebellion of 1900 has been represented as 'a war against European imperialism' by 'the usual suspects' of the left.
In actual fact - it was the wicked and brutal persecution of Christians by the so-called Boxers which fomented the initial stages of this conflict.
Naturally, there were countless political factors involved - but let us never forget where all of this began.

Dr Crippen.

I am rapidly tiring of conspiracy theories - particularly regarding those allegedly 'innocent' of murder.
The latest is Dr Hawley Crippen executed in 1910 for the murder of his wife, Cora.
Their friends thought that he had killed her and called the police; he was having an affair; he ran away as soon as interviewed; the police found a body in his cellar; his wife had disappeared off the face of the earth; he lied that he had received telegrams from her - and later (riskily if not what he knew to be true, stated that she was dead) that he had received news from the USA of her decease.
His pyjama bottoms were found alongside the body in his cellar for which he was indubitably responsible! He was executed for that killing - irrespective of the identity of the corpse.
He was clearly a murderer!
The problem was that the body has proved NOT to be that of Cora - but is clearly still down to him.
He almost certainly killed her as well - although it remains a possibility that she disappeared in fear of her own life but the indications are otherwise.
Technically, he should not have been convicted for his wife's murder, though.
But in fact, he was almost certainly a worse killer than previously thought.
The theorists have had to resort to wild and utterly unsubstantiated claims a century on, that the police had 'planted' evidence in order to lend any credence to their efforts. The last resort of the desperate defence barrister!
Nothing pleases an abolitionist more than an allegedly 'wrongful execution'. Indeed, they invented many over decades - and they have all been exposed on this Blog.

OFT.

The Office of Fair Trading has finally awoken from its slumbers and, inter al, has condemned so-called 'drip pricing', often used by airlines, where a low headline price is driven up by other must-pay extras.

GOOD!

Happy first birthday Lisbon Treaty?

No! May it rot!

The House of Lords.

I have very mixed feelings about The House of Lords. As a democrat, I really should be opposing it to the Nth degree. I surely have no need to list here all of the reasons why 'the wrong people' are placed into that chamber BUT there is one real problem in replacing it and that is the other principle in which I have long believed - 'If it ain't broke - don't fix it.'

Time and again, when the Commons has failed - The Lords have come to the rescue of our people.

I suppose that 'an elected chamber' is inevitable but when it does eventually come, it must be largely elected by PR - which I do think will be the case.

Caroline Spelman.

Caroline Spelman, the UK's environment secretary, says, "We are already feeling the effects of climate change and must adapt fast."
Source: The Guardian.

Indeed, she seems to have hit the nail right on the head. The next ice age which we were being promised when I was at school - and at university - seems to be well on its way!

Hands up if you still think the EU is not an unmitigated disaster!

British share of euro bail-outs could cost families £700 a year!
Britain's share of euro zone bailouts has already exposed every British family to costs or liabilities of £300 this year, a figure that could more than double as the crisis worsens.

Source: Daily Telegraph.

Will they NEVER admit that they're wrong?

UNBELIEVABLE!

Interesting Jewish perspective.

EUOBSERVER / JERUSALEM - One of the luminaries of the international Jewish community, Rabbi David Rosen, has warned that Europe risks being "overrun" by Islam unless it rediscovers its Christian roots.
Speaking to journalists at a meeting in Jerusalem on Friday (26 November), Rabbi Rosen, the director of inter-religious affairs at the Washington-based American Jewish Congress, said that a predominantly secular and liberal Western European society is under threat from the rapid growth of Islamic communities which do not want to integrate with their neighbours.

The Arab quarter in Brussels. 'Those who do not have a strong identity are easily overrun by those who do' Rabbi Rosen said (Photo: aldask)
"I am against building walls. My humanity is my most important component. But Western society very clearly doesn't have a strong identity. I would like Christians in Europe to become more Christian ... those who do not have a strong identity are easily overrun by those who do," the rabbi warned.

Saint Francis.

'Try to realise the dignity God has bestowed on you; He created and formed your body in the image of His beloved Son, and your soul in His own likeness.' (Saint Francis of Assisi)

(Romans 10: 9-18.)

Psalm 7:9.

'Bring to an end the violence of the wicked and make the righteous secure— you, the righteous God who probes minds and hearts.'

Bonkers.

Whatever happened to perspective?
Why are people travelling in these conditions?
Madness!