Anglican 'Unity Covenant' Voted Down.

'The Church of England has voted down a 'unity covenant' that was intended to help keep together the Anglican Communion, which is experiencing fierce divisions over theological differences amongst its member churches.' (Christian Post.)

Because of the widespread heresy in its ranks, the Anglican Church is surely destined to implode!

A LITTLE Of What You Fancy ...

A couple of drinks each day helps heart attack survivors live longer, a study claims.
It found that men who drank moderately after a first heart attack had a 42 per cent lower risk of dying from heart disease than non-drinkers.
Their risk of death from any cause was also reduced by 14 per cent.
However, those who drank more than two drinks a day were no better off, says a report in the online edition of the European Heart Journal. (Mail.)

Judge Earns A Coconut.

A married father who downloaded a million indecent images after developing an obsession for collecting child porn has walked free from court.

Roger Borton, 56, was caught with one of the largest ever collections of child pornography in the UK and he even continued offending after police raided his home.

But even though the offences carry a maximum five-year jail term, he escaped an immediate prison sentence so he could be given therapy instead.

To Judge Colin Burn, this Blog awards a well-deserved LoonyTunesWatch Coconut for not remembering that 'therapy' can be administered as much IN prison as outside it!! Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2121598/Married-father-ONE-MILLION-child-pornography-images-escapes-jail.html#ixzz1qTrVInjZ

Sally Bercow - Reprehensible!

'Sally Bercow drew sharp criticism from drugs campaigners last night after saying she was tempted to try the latest legal high before it is banned.

Ministers are set to outlaw the sale of methoxetamine – also known as mexxy or MXE – within days after it was linked to two deaths and experts warned of its dangerous effects.'
For those who do not know of her, she is the actively Labour-supporting wife of that egregious, milksop tory, John Bercow who just happens to be The Speaker Of The House. (I doubt that he gets the chance 'to get a word in' too often in his own house!)
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2121565/Will-learn-Mrs-Speaker-sparks-ANOTHER-storm-claiming-shes-tempted-try-Mexxy-drug-outlawed.html#ixzz1qTpcRS5f

The New Amish?

Sheffield Star.

This week the front page of The Sheffield Star has regaled us with a dreadful story. It is of a sportsman who was stabbed in the heart with a screwdriver following an argument. He survived but will never again be able to ply his trade as a boxer.

Lowe.



The perpetrator received a 4 year sentence. In practice he will probably serve a trivial 18 months for this heinous act in a pretty comfortable prison. William Lowe, who actually stabbed his victim FOUR TIMES had a previous criminal history of violent behaviour. It was only the excellent medical attention which prevented this being a murder. In ALL other respects - that is what this act was!

A sentence of 15 years would have been grossly inadequate.

I utterly despair of our society!

Borstals - I Wonder If Regular Readers Can Guess What I Am Thinking?

'At first glance, the pictures seem to show a group of keen young men enthusiastically taking part in a series of innocent, if somewhat old-fashioned, pastimes. However, these extraordinary photographs actually depict daily life at Lowdham Grange, North Sea Camp and Rochester Borstals for boys in 1937. The images, released to the Mail by the National Archives, show that life for young offenders nearly 80 years ago was a mixture of very hard work, intensive training, rehabilitation and self-improvement, with a dollop of fun thrown in for good measure.' (Mail.)

Never Let God Be Replaced By The Internet!

RSPB Wrong Again?

Starlings vanish from our gardens as numbers fall by 80% in 25 years. (Mail.)

The RSPB has now launched a study into this decline, believing a possible cause to be changes in soil affecting the insects they feed on.
Following on from their unwarranted conclusions about the relative harmlessness of magpies to their fellow avians - entirely contradicted by my own observations and many more bird lovers across Yorkshire - it looks like The RSPB has got it wrong again!
Their calculation methodology is flawed. Snapshots - largely from schoolchildren just do not possess an overview.
In recent years we had indeed seen many fewer starlings than ever before. To that point they were on the mark. BUT what they do not seem to have registered is that starling numbers have increased significantly in the last two years. Again this is the fruit of my personal observation. We have gone from them having a rarity value in S13 to be almost as common as they used to be. They are back squabbling on our lawn and bird table after quite an absence.

I was a longterm member of the RSPB but resigned some years ago and my allegiances are now firmly with the trust called Songbird Survival which seems to have the best interests of dickie birds as their primary concern. This group appears to work out the whole truth with unerring regularity.

Dr David Drew.

The good doctor was sacked as Clinical Director at Walsall Manor Hospital in 2010.

This is currently before an industrial tribunal. Consequently, this matter being in a sense sub judice, I am somewhat restricted in what I may say.

Apparently, he had the effrontery to pass an old and established prayer to his team as a motivator and prefaced this with the accompaniment that 'this helped him'.

Seemingly, the final straw came when a colleague, Rob Hodgkiss, replied with the word ‘likewise’, to his thoroughly wicked text which had wished him 'a peaceful Christmas'.

The hospital's report stated: ( AND ERM - why was any such report needed, I ask myself?) ‘While DD (David Drew) may regard such messages as benign, RH (Rob Hodgkiss) perceived them as aggressive and unwelcome intrusions into his private time.’

I hope I am not sailing too close to the wind when I WARN everyone out there that wishing any pleasanteries to work colleagues in the Christmas season may cost you your job!

And there are those out there who claim that 'Christians complain too much over the shenanigans of so-called aggressive atheism.' Yeah. Right!

TOWIE Could Go.

Apparently, the horrendously mindless vacuity of The Only Way Is Essex could be taken off air. As the Spaniards say in a single word what takes us quite a few - ojalá. This translates as something like 'If only this were really the case!'

Evangelicals In Brazil.

Researchers at Sepal (Serving Pastors and Leaders) studied results from Brazil's Census 2000 survey by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics and other information from a March 2007 study conducted by Datafolha, a major domestic information firm. Based on figures obtained from both sources, Sepal concludes that over half of the nation's population will be evangelical in less than a decade."We believe 52 per cent of the population will be evangelical by 2020, or about 109.3 million evangelicals within a total population of 209.3 million," said Sepal researcher Luis André Brunet, in an interview with The Christian Post this week.

http://www.christiantoday.com/article/evangelicals.could.make.up.half.of.brazils.
population.by.2020/27557.htm

Eurozone - The New TSR2?

The crisis in the eurozone is far from over and the region needs
‘the mother of all firewalls’ to save it from financial ruin, a leading international watchdog said yesterday.
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development told leaders to double the bailout fund to €1trillion (£836bn) to protect the single currency from collapse.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/markets/article-2121157/Euro-needs-mother-firewalls-according-international-watchdog.html#ixzz1qNBlPbUh

Is This Situation The Product Of Sane minds?

From: Janet Berry, Barfield, Hambleton. Yorks Post.
A BUSINESSMAN points out that his business turned over £90,000 of which generated £60,000 in VAT, £50,000 in PAYE and £37,000 in corporation tax earning £147,000 in taxes for the government.
He personally earned £72,000 for working 70 to 80 hours weekly with two weeks holiday. He questions whether he should carry on working so that the state can get twice as much as he does especially when they can arbitrarily change the pension rules.
Hardly fair is it? I think many people in business are asking the same question.

Green Piffle In Yorks Post Letter.

Denise Craghill, Chair, York Green Party.
MORE roads to “build for the future”? What on earth is David Cameron talking about? Of course we should maintain the roads we have, but his cuts are forcing local councils to cut back on this. Of course, we should use innovation to help create an economy fit for the 21st century, but what has building more roads got to do with that?
We know that more roads mean more traffic ............

Oh. So we know this, do we? It is time that this particular shibboleth were humanely dispatched!
When a relief road opens which company buys a new van or lorry?
Which individual is prompted to buy a car?
Apparent increases in traffic are due entirely to displacement!
It would take considerable effort to track down someone who switches away from public transport to their own vehicle just because of such a measure.
LOOK AT THE PHOTO!
If a relief road or bypass could stop the horror portrayed - why would you not want that - other than through a desire to punish the motorist, of course?
FYI, Dear Greens - THE EFFICIENT MOVEMENT OF TRAFFIC IS CONSIDERABLY GREENER THAN SUPPORTING TRAFFIC JAMS!
GET REAL!

Vodka And Tomato Juice Herself.

Bloody Mary burned 280 protestants during her reign in the 1550s. This prompted John Knox to turn a little extreme.

Boycotting Starbucks?

'A respected pro-family organization announced a boycott of Starbucks coffee. The group, which supports legal protection for traditional marriage, launched the "Dump Starbucks" campaign after a national board meeting in which the Seattle-based coffee company mentioned support for same-sex marriage as a core value of the company.' (Christian Post.)

I was boycotting it anyway because of silly prices for its unflavoursome coffee.

Fruit Of The Spirit.

Smoking.

Smoking does not need chancellors' budgets for it to die out.

In my circles of colleagues, family, friends, Church and neighbours I now only know two people who still smoke.

Things have certainly changed since when 'I wor a nipper'.

UK Conduct in The EU Heaps Shame On Our Heads.

'The UK and Denmark did not lose any cases in 2011 over failing to implement EU laws.' The EU Observer.
Good little lapdogs, eh?

What Causes Cold Winters? Global Warming Of Course!

http://libertarianalliance.wordpress.com/2012/03/27/what-causes-cold-winters-global-warming-of-course-ive-been-waiting-for-this/
A leading geologist once tried to persuade me that cold winters were the result of global warming at least eight years ago.

New Yorkshire CC President.



 Sir Geoffrey.