Why have people ever doubted the intelligence of sheep?

More ECHR lunacy.

'Schools have been told they have to make special allowances for misbehaving pupils from gypsy and traveller families
Teachers have been warned they could be taken to task under the Equality Act if they discipline or exclude such children from schools.
Cash-strapped schools are even told they should launch an ‘outreach’ programme with a dedicated member of staff to ‘build trust’ with traveller families.'
WONDERFUL! The 'tail to wag the dog' once again. Gypsy families not having to conform to society but society having to conform to them!

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1358927/Schools-told-easy-disruptive-gypsy-children.html#ixzz1EZd83XNg

Okay - what's going on with the mail?

Something is definitely wrong. My invite to Will & Kate's nuptials has not arrived yet. It's time the Royal Mail got stuck into doing its job properly!

Graffiti in Sheffield.

“To journey en masse into illusion is to sleepwalk through destination’s wake, along the pre-determined channels of a cyclical stream; to break fear in isolation’s truth is to believe yourself bathing not drowning, forever entwined in the tranquillity of dream...”
????

Aren't you glad that the Bible is generally very clear about what it means?

Chris Patten to be new BBC chairman

Oh dear. I thought that we'd heard the last of Patten and now he turns up at the Beeb.
Yet another leftwing tory. At one time that description would have been an oxymoron but sadly, no longer.

Oh dear, oh dear.

'A Tory councillor who said of a job interview applicant 'Good candidate, shame he's black' has kept his job despite being found guilty of making the racist slur.
John Major, 79, made the comment after interviewing Hitesh Patel for the £119,000-a-year job as chief executive of Monmouthshire County Council.
His stunned colleagues on the recruitment panel reported him and he was hauled before The Adjudication Panel for Wales.
But despite being found guilty of 'racist, discriminatory and inappropriate' language, the former soldier has kept his job on the council.
The adjudication panel also decided not to take action against Major for calling a tanned colleague 'half a wog'. '

BNP and the tories are welcome to people like him - in UKIP we don't tolerate bigots like this!

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1358260/Good-candidate--shame-hes-black-Tory-keeps-job-despite-guilty-job-interview-race-slur.html#ixzz1EOCMHuV5

Worship & learn!

In 2006, the American Society of Hypertension stated that church-goers have lower blood pressure than the non-faithful.

Can we possibly be surprised?

Confrontation: the fightback begins?

'Almost 600 criminals trying to make money out of the voting ban on prisoners were slapped down by a High Court judge yesterday.
They had sought £5,000 each compensation for being unable to vote at the last election. Instead, Mr Justice Langstaff ordered them to PAY £76 each towards the costs of their action. In a decision hailed as a rare legal victory for common sense, he ruled that European judgments should never be allowed to trump laws passed at Westminster.'

In my experience, this is the very first evidence of a fightback from 'the usual quislings' in Parliament and the Courts since Thatcher's day. As marvellous as it is remarkable. It is almost impossible to grasp the possible ramifications. The EU mafia will be going apoplectic. (Good.)

However - this cannot be. Our membership of the EU is dependent on our being part of the ECHR. This decision cannot stand: will not be allowed to stand. At the very least, it will be watered down in some way.

Our politicians lack the moral fibre to allow this 'horse and cart' to go unchecked.

DO remember that around 95% of MPs are fully sold out to the 'European ideal'.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1358295/High-Court-kicks-prisoners-bid-vote-compensation-Cameron-told-CAN-defy-Strasbourg-diktats.html#ixzz1EO4ReUXJ

Poem.

Share The Teacher Earth.
Servant-like Nature-
Mist greets me every morning as it wraps its arms around the mountains.
How God-fearing, as it works so diligently and happily.
What a lesson learned from Servant Mist.

Then I come across Humble River.
So wide and deep, but not fast or loud to speak.
Yet, jewels and beauty beams from the reflection of the bright Star above.
River, teach me to shine.

Oh, let's not forget Bold Mountain and his friends.
And what a character they are.
They secure, protect, and endure
What such great warriors who resist temptation to rest.
Excited they are for the coming King so they can finally rest their heads,
but during their wait, they never rest.

Servant Nature,
warm my heart
quiet my mind
fill my soul.

Sheenachun.

Wanna see the photo of a buffoon?

Jean-Paul Costa, a senior ECHR judge - indeed president, no less - has stated that the UK withdrawing from the European Convention on Human Rights would put Britain on a par with the military junta which once ruled Greece.

Why do we have to put up with the inane rantings of politically-motivated, imperialistic buffoons - AND allow them to run our nation?

We must quit the EU and wave bye byes to the wicked ECHR which of course, is NOT a part of the EU at all - or so they claim!

On the scale of exaggeration where a 'one' is valid argument with a slight bias - he gets a TEN!

Johnny Ball.

As a climate change sceptic, Johnny Ball doesn’t mince his words.
He once declared spider flatulence to be more damaging to the environment than fossil fuels.
But the veteran children’s TV presenter is paying the price for his outspoken remarks.
Witch-hunt: Johnny Ball - father of Radio Two DJ Zoe Ball - believes his career has been destroyed.
Yesterday he revealed he has become the victim of a vicious hate campaign by environmentalist ‘zealots’.

This is no surprise to me. Let us make an enormous leap of faith and assume that he is wrong in his opinions. In a free country HE IS ENTITLED TO BE WRONG!
He has been victimised in exactly the same way as was David Bellamy.
When people cease trying to win arguments and resort to shouting, abuse and persecution to make their points - you must suspect that their case contains inherent weaknesses!

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1358139/Climate-zealots-life-hell-sceptic-says-Johnny-Ball-victim-porn-blog-smears.html#ixzz1EHjNGHmK

Brown had been warned by the IMF!

'Gordon Brown and his Labour colleagues were warned by the IMF as early as 2003 that their spending was on an “unsustainable course”.
Instead of taking steps to rectify this, it would seem that in 2006 they bullied the IMF into saying all was well, even though a simulation carried out at the time by the IMF and our own FSA indicated that a financial meltdown was potentially imminent.'

(Paul Rouse.)

Argue your way out of that one all ye Labour lapdogs!

John 13:35.

"By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another."

If we cannot love our fellow Christians - then how can we possibly demonstrate our faith to unbelievers?

Not always best to know.

One is easier than the other.

I have commented in the past on how difficult it is going to be remove 'the tares from the wheat' in the sickness benefit culture. Innocent people are going to be damaged as the 'bad apples' are squeezed out.

In theory at least, it should be considerably easier to sort out unemployment benefits.

It is not over simplistic to insist that once anybody has been offered a job - they must take it!

If they do not care for the post then it becomes entirely their responsibility to find another or benefits will be lost.

At the same time it is the government's responsibility to ensure that nobody is better off by not being in work.

Your preference?

Which would you prefer to have, political correctness or freedom of speech?

COZ YOU CAN'T HAVE BOTH!

Is the KJV a translation?

The KJV is often labelled a “translation.” But more than 80 per cent of its New Testament and much of its Old Testament content was the work of William Tyndale, whose translations of original Greek and Hebrew texts had appeared nearly a century earlier.

Health changes.

We all want excellent healthcare: we all want value for our tax money.

Did the giant trusts do the job? - No!

Will Cameron's NHS changes work? - Possibly - but it is a definite risk!

The reaon why we may be able to have a little optimism is that it moves closer to the French model which is the envy of the world even if President Bruni is trying at the moment to slash his nation's spending on health!

The French system ensures that 'the money follows the patient' and is not 'top funded'. If we are moving closer to that - then there is a chance that we shall endup with more healthcare professionals and fewer bureaucrats.

Could GP greed wreck the attempt, I wonder?

Yorks Post wisdom.

From: John D Clark, Burnsall, North Yorkshire.

IT is becoming increasingly obvious that membership of the single market is not vital for British trade.
There are numerous reasons: more than 90 per cent of British imports are tariff free; the net cost of EU membership is 10 per cent of GDP (£139bn in 2009); there is a huge structural trade deficit with the EU; over 90 per cent of the British economy is not involved in exports to the EU; British export growth is better outside the EU because the EU under-performs economically; British import growth is more from outside the EU; the proportion of British exports going to the EU, already under half, is declining and a country doesn’t have to belong to the single market to export to it.
With regard to this last point, the United States and China sell more goods to the EU than does the UK. Closer to home, Norway and Switzerland export far more in relation to their GDP and population, five times and three times respectively.

One final observation: the ability of the EU to invest in those areas that would lead to a much-needed competitive economy in Europe is severely compromised by a Common Agricultural Policy that takes up roughly half of the EU budget, even though it accounts for only four per cent of EU GDP. In these difficult times when cuts are unavoidable, can we afford to ignore these facts?

Astonishing scientific breakthrough.

Scientists have recently discovered that zinc tablets and lozenges help combat the common cold.

Funnily enough, I can remember tins of zinc lozenges used for that very purpose more than half a century ago!

Madison quote.

"Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks, no form of government can render us secure. To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people is a chimerical idea."

James Madison.

To Barnsley Council - a coconut.

This Blog hereby awards the much coveted LoonyTunesWatch coconut to Barnsley Council.

This can surely not be accidental. They have clearly attempted to engineer this honour. How so, do you ask?

They have sent a lengthy, highly complex form to all Alzheimers sufferers in the town.

Well done. Well earned!