RIP Fred Titmus.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Titmus

Pray for Nigeria.

'Churches bombed and Christians attacked as violence spreads in Nigeria ahead of Presidential elections. Police warn worship areas are targets. Fears that jihad has been launched to create chaos and force state of emergency. Archbishop of Jos fears city could be overrun

There are warnings that growing violence in Nigeria is being instigated by extremists who want to stir up religious violence and create a state of emergency ahead of the Presidential elections. The Archbishop of Jos fears the city could be overrun and is calling for increased security.
A blast on Sunday killed two suspected bombers, but failed to catch the churchgoers for which it was probably intended. In other attacks in Jos three Christians were killed and six stabbed.

These are just the latest in a series of attacks which have claimed hundreds of lives over the past year. A partner of Release International, which serves persecuted Christians, believes the aim behind the attacks is to whip up sectarian violence ahead of the April elections.

The Stefanos Foundation points to a newspaper statement calling for jihad allegedly published by a Jos Muslim Elders Forum on December 30 2010 – days after the latest round of violence erupted.

It said: ‘Muslims in the State shall ensure that a few months before General Elections jihad will be declared in the State, which cannot be controlled even by security agencies, with great slaughter and massacre, which the Federal Government will have no option than to declare a State of Emergency in Plateau.’

Release International.

Invaded.

The last time our forces were justifiably employed was when our dependency - The Falkland Islands - were treacherously invaded.



Iraq.


Afghastlystan.


Bosnia.


Libya.


No, no, no and no again!

Meddling costs young lives and horrendous injuries.
And how much good has actually been achieved - and that assumes that we were 'on the side of the angels' in the first place.

Japan: 6 days from this to this. M1 repairers, please note!

See below for all my in depth comments on the budget.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1369407/IAIN-MARTIN-The-speech-Mr-Osborne-SHOULD-made.html

ASDA shame!

My favourite ASDA coffee has increased in price slightly over the last few months - just over 80%!!!!
If the beans had tripled in price, this would still not have made this reasonable!

A little more honesty with the RPI - maybe?

Incredible. How come Christians weren't aware of such things?

'Do you have trouble keeping hold of your temper and find you lash out at the slightest provocation? The power of prayer could help, according to scientists.

Researchers found people who made a silent appeal were better able to cope with their anger, whether they were religious or not.
Co-author Brad Bushman of Ohio State University, said: 'People often turn to prayer when they're feeling negative emotions, including anger.

'We found that prayer really can help people cope with their anger, probably by helping them change how they view the events that angered them and helping them take it less personally.'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1368839/Feeling-furious-Saying-little-prayer-calm-frayed-nerves-boost-mood.html#ixzz1HOsvLFaL

UK Government's Barnett Formula gives more special treatment to the Scots.

The Barnett Formula gives the people of Scotland £1,500 more per capita than is received per head in England.
Little wonder they can afford free prescriptions, care for the elderly and university tuition fees.
And then there is the small matter of over-representation at Westminster as well as the West Lothian Question!

Fair, innit?

More on AV.

Funny how the tories are griping that they would have had a parliamentary overall majority if only the boundaries had been fair.
Yes. And UKIP would have had 36 seats under a really fair formula called PR - which will - if anything be EVEN worse - under AV!

Libya.

GET OUT NOW! Our forces should only be used for our defence.

We truly are 'rip-off Britain!'

So many ordinary, hardworking folks are currently getting a really raw deal which has set their living standards into 'plummet mode'.
The oil companies are giving drivers a hard time but this is only a fraction of what the government is doing where VAT is levied ON TOP OF existing fuel taxes.
The power companies are making us ensure that our houses must become colder.
The Bosman Ruling ensures that live football is becoming the province of 'the comfortably off'.
Air carriers are ripping us off with numerous add ons.
Successive governments are hitting us with so-called 'green taxes'.
Supermarkets have hammered us with uncalled for price rises over the last two years.
Insurance companies hold us to ransom.
The EU costs every family thousands annually.
Sky's prices rise periodically to ever more ridiculous levels.
Most ordinary people can no longer afford a visit to the pub.

Most are receiving minimal pay rises - or in my case - nothing for five and a half years.
This inflation is then cunningly concealed and the pretence is made of tiny inflationary increases.

The government and councils actually take (steal?) well over HALF of our earnings through various forms of taxation (AND waste vast amounts of this!)

Mole-In-The-Know has uncovered more scandal.

MITK has learned of a comprehensive school in Sheffield where a certain RE teacher, who is an atheist and propagator of his faith, is upsetting Christian children in his classes by his bias and misrepresentations of Christianity.
Christian groups are finding themselves banned from this same establishment.
Perhaps he would do well to look up Jesus's comments about millstones!

I suspect that this is the tip of a very big iceberg. Much prayer required!

Libyan Christians.

Please pray for the minority Christians in Libya. They face a particularly problematic time in the weeks and months ahead.

Where next with nuclear power?

Apparently, the Chinese are working towards the safest nuclear power yet - and by a country mile. Thorium!

Obituary, Yorkshire Post.

Published on Saturday 19 March 2011 06:00

RODNEY George Leigh, who was a patient and gifted flying instructor and who taught the present generation of Royal Air Force pilots to fly, has died aged 67.
His kindness and patience were such that he would often be sent students who were struggling and he would get them through their course.
He was a dedicated and experienced pilot whose talent was flying training, and when he retired from the RAF as a flight lieutenant in 2002 he continued to instruct and pass on his knowledge to trainees by working in the flight simulator at RAF Linton on Ouse, near York.
He was born in Ripon where his father George was serving with the army, but the family moved to Newcastle where Rod, as he was always known, spent most of his childhood and was educated at Rutherford High School.
From an early age, he was interested in aviation. Against his father’s wishes, he chose direct entry to the Royal Air Force instead of going to university.
Following his flying training he flew Shackletons on 210 Squadron at Ballykelly in Northern Ireland, and 205 Squadron at RAF Changi, in Singapore, where he met his future wife Pat. Her father was also serving there in the RAF. They married in 1969 and returned to the UK later that year.
He then served at St Mawgan, in Cornwall, and after converting to Nimrods served on 203 Squadron at RAF Luqa in Malta.
His next posting was a ground tour which, as a dedicated pilot he did not enjoy, but he was then fortunate to be posted to Central Flying School where he became a qualified flying instructor and showed his talent for training young pilots.

His skill was such that he even taught a sparrow to fly.

It was there in 1998 that he also achieved 10,000 hours flying a Tucano and two years later was awarded a “Good Show” for his flying skill and judgment. On take off in a Tucano a bird went into the engine, but he managed to land safely.

In 2001, the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators awarded him their Master’s Commendation for his “outstanding and exceptionally long standing contribution to flying training in the Royal Air Force”.

At his funeral his coffin was carried by six pilots from RAF Linton on Ouse, and there was a fly past by a single Tucano from the base.

Flt Lt Leigh, who lived at Crayke, near Easingwold, is survived by his wife Pat, daughter Joanna, son Alex, and three grandchildren.

How to be terminally sad - Part 10.

Try a bit of undiluted racism. You know the sort of thing - shouting abuse, mockery, slogans and writing on walls.

With this you too can become 'terminally sad'.

If you are too thick 'to walk and chew' at the same time - you could go down to the Sikh owned shop at the bottom of our road and write on the side 'Pakis go back to Africa!'

No, honestly. I kid you not! That actually happened about two years ago.

Ah. I bet that he's heard about my Blog!

Christians surely want ...

.... low taxation but massive amounts of help for those who genuinely struggle, whether through sickness, mental illness, age or other problems beyond their ability to solve for themselves.

Some sort of 'workfare' scheme must surely be imposed for those not prepared to: help themselves; take offered jobs; refuse to train or retrain.

I know, I know. The only problem with this can be a 'biggie' - where are the boundary lines to be drawn?

Just because it's tough should not mean that the attempt to solve this rank unfairness is not made.

The Apostle Paul said it: "If a man will not work - let him not eat!"

Now. Let's turn our social attention to hammering tax evaders from the bottom of society to the very top!

Rebecca Costa's overview of our political chaos. Fascinating!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1367949/What-Mayans-teach-wind-turbines.html

The last British have gone - now the last American.

No one knows quite why American soldiers were once known as "doughboys". But Frank Buckles was indisputably the very last of them – the sole American still alive who went to Europe to fight in the First World War, after the US entered the conflict in 1917.

The Independent - obituaries.

Libya.

I just cannot believe that yet another Prime Minister is committing our grossly underfunded forces to yet another campaign which has nothing to do with us.

Has Brazil sent warplanes - to pick just one unconnected nation out of the scores who have not intruded?

We should have kept our noses out of everything since The Falklands War - which at least, Galtieri had forced on us.

Incidentally, who is paying for all of this?