Global what?

I suspect that the 'global warmers' will not have had a particularly good winter. The propaganda battle has not gone well.

The public has found out that global temperatures have actually dropped over the last ten years; there has been snow in Vegas (!); we had an extended cold snap in December; snow at the end of October and now, the worst weather conditions for 18 years!

Oh no! What if the ovine public were to actually think about all of this?

Well. Phew. They are probably safe - education has done its worst to remove all evidence of true thought over the last 30+ years - most people will not even have spotted the massive contradictions!

Wait til they wheel out the next expert to talk about this. I can hear them now: "Ah well. You see, these weather conditions actually fit the pattern."

AAAGHHHH!

Jansenism.

Cornelius Otto Jansen was a Roman Catholic thinker whose writings were embraced by many believers post Council of Trent.

His teachings which were heavily into the concept of predestination led people to believe that humans are predetermined by God into salvation or damnation.

The relevant scriptural texts if interpreted as the 'foreknowledge of God' rather than the 'predestination of God' leave room for the concepts of freewill and salvation.

Sadly, Jansen would not have agreed - nor would John Calvin have been exactly sympathetic within protestantism!

(The belief system was heavily attacked by L'Abbé Prévost in his novel " L'histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut" on which the famous opera is based.)

Bel Mooney.

Bel Mooney always used to seem such a liberal leftie. Bit by bit she is improving as this link shows.

LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1134441/BEL-MOONEY-Why-Left-hate-family-Liberals-ignore-new-findings-children-growing-mother-father-fare-best.html

We cannot go on like this.

My spies have been out and about in Sheffield and I have received information from a secret source that at a certain state school, and in a particular class, there is just one pupil who is English and who speaks English.
It is quite conceivable that this is only the tip of a huge iceberg. The social damage of uncontrolled immigration is incalculable.
It is NOT just happening in Slough.

Whatever happened to geography?

The complaints over the years about what school History syllabuses have left out have been many and justified.

Few however, mention Geography, a subject which has been totally emasculated at the same time in the 'dumbing down era' which has sought to ensure that youngsters have little usable knowledge about the world they inhabit.

The absence of knowledge of locations - cities, mountain ranges, lakes, rivers, oceans, countries and even continents is lamentable.

The syllabuses are not necessarily attackable for what they include as much as for what they leave out.

[All of this goes back to that time - and it remains with us - when educationists have lamely insisted that "memory is not a true part of education."]

Uncooperative?

A SIMPLE LESSON IN ECONOMICS.

Ask yourself a simple question. If you were to rank the following supermarkets in order of preference, how many readers would put the Coop in one of the top two or three places? - Tesco, Sainsburys, Morrisons, Waitrose, ASDA & The Cooperative Wholesale Society? The number of readers who do put the Coop in a lofty position will certainly be few.

The other supermarkets are different; quality is generally better, there is more choice and variety of goods and most tend to be cheaper. Strange really, as when I was a lad, the Coop had a virtual monopoly in the three areas where I lived. Today, it can hardly cope with ALDI, NETTO and LIDL. A fair few Coop stores have closed down.The point is of course, that the 'wicked capitalists' have done a much better job for the consumer than has the good, Rochdale socialism of the Coop.

I rather wonder whether the dyed-in-the-wool socialists have sold out and use these bastions of the free market or whether they stick to their principles and do the weekly shop 'down the Coop'.

What do you think?

Aaagh!

A nurse has been suspended from her job for offering to pray for an elderly patient's recovery from illness!

LINKS: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/4409168/Nurse-suspended-for-offering-to-pray-for-patients-recovery.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1134463/RICHARD-LITTLEJOHN-Christians-havent-got-prayer-diversity-Britain-.html

Egging on the health fascists.

New reports are now saying that eating more than 3 eggs a week apparently does not cause: impotence, nervous dyspepsia, imbecility, heart attacks, strokes, male pattern baldness, infertility, moral degeneracy, piles, lumbago, the wibbly-wobblies, creeping lurgi, world wars and ingrowing toenails.

Strange that. The health fascists had looked to have been onto a real winner up to this point. Four decades-worth of listening to pseudo-science and we all fell for it - as usual!

[Remember when Woody Allen woke up many years into the future in 'Sleeper' to discover that the new 'health food' was cream cakes?]

PS. I had mine scrambled this morning.

PPS. I have gone back to butter too.

Now I remember.

Now I remember why I began publishing this Blog in the first place.

I was so heartily sickened by the torrents of leftwingers on the radio purporting to be Christian and advocating a social, or worse, a multifaith 'gospel'. Over nearly three years I hope that I have proved that indeed, 'Christianityisnotleftwing'.

In the last couple of weeks, I have been horrified by the amount of lefties given a platform whose links to genuine Christianity are tenuous to say the least.

That is not to say that true Christians from a variety of denominations do not get some cover but they always seem to get rather swamped!

Another way of looking at a difficult issue.

If somebody who loves and cares for you gives you a beautiful bouquet of flowers, you are grateful and enjoy all aspects of their colour, form and perfume.

Flowers fade, however and eventually die.

If you are like me, you take out the ones which begin to die off first so that you can maximise the beauty which remains in the bunch.

Sadly, the remaining flowers will have to be cast aside and binned as they too start to die off.

You do not leave the half dead flowers in the vase until they have all totally withered away!

Nor does the fact that you eventually throw them out mean that you have been in any way unappreciative of a fine gift. When you do dump them, this is not a metaphorical slap in the face to the giver.

Yet many Christians however, seem to use this very argument against voluntary euthanasia.

As a Christian, this issue troubles me deeply and I do not find the simplistic 'no, nay, never' of the Roman Church at all helpful.

Litigious?

Don't blame ASDA, blame our litigious society.

"Under the heading 'Allergy advice', plastic bottles of milk sold by the supermarket carry a serious warning - 'Contains milk'."

Lindsey Oil Refinery.

Having worked at the Lindsey Oil Refinery at N. Killingholme many years ago, I take a particular interest in the current dispute there.

My sympathy with these workers is real but I am less than happy with the way the unions involved seem to have badly missed the point.

It is not quite as portrayed that 'foreign workers are taking our jobs'.

My understanding is that this French owned company has simply taken the best bid for given contracts. The consequence is that Italian and Portuguese workers are now in place.

There are a number of angles required to put this matter into perspective.

1] European Union rules do not permit companies to only consider bids from British firms. I suspect that the penalties for not taking the best bid and adopting 'little Englander' attitudes would be severe.

2] Why are the trade unions not complaining about the mass influx of workers from the poorer EU nations which has been far more damaging to British workers than this relatively minor issue?

3] Gordon Brown's "British jobs for British workers" is just hot air and is undeliverable as long as we remain controlled by Brussels.

4] Uncontrolled immigration has contributed to this with workers from beyond the EU who have been let in because of Labour's laxness and EU rules, once again.

Clearly, British workers should be voting for the only party which will address the real issue - UKIP!

BMI Baby.

I should like to recommend to all my readers to avoid purchasing flights with BMI Baby, the midlands airline.
My wife and I were recently victims of a scam at East Midlands Airport regarding the dishonest selling of the BMI Baby credit card.
BMI have been uncooperative in the extreme in resolving this matter which has now been reported to the local police and will also result in a civil action to claim the costs of two return flights for Spain.
BMI have now claimed that Citi Bank, the issuers of the cards, are actually to blame but the credit card, the literature and the promises are all made in their name so their intransigence is unfathomable!

The reality of government bail outs.

"The truth is, however, that government spending does not so much create, as displace employment. Every pound spent by the Government must first be taken from the people, who cannot then spend it for themselves. If the money taken, is taken [back]through taxes, it exactly reduces the ability of the people to spend or invest it for themselves as they wish, or to save it for transfer, via the banking system, for others to spend or invest as they wish. If the money is borrowed, it again exactly reduces the amount of money that the people can borrow to spend or invest."

Sean Gabb.

The Gospel of Judas?

The stupidity of so-called intelligent people has never failed to surprise and amaze me during my stay on this planet.

The so-called Gospel of Judas is a case in point.

1] This 'gospel' dates from the 3rd or 4th century which hardly compares well with the fragments of John and Mark's gospels which date back archaeologically to the first century.

2] It is claimed that there might have been a 2nd century, greek version. Probably not, and even if correct, then so what?

3] It was produced by the gnostics who bear little similarity to the Christian Church and calling them a cult would be quite kind.

4] Why do historians take rejected texts and attribute a greater worth to them than the Christians did at the time?

5] Do they not grasp that rooting through historical 'dustbins' can produce gems but usually all you are usually going to find is rubbish.

6] One small and possibly trivial extra point, Judas Iscariot died a few days after Jesus.

Are they really claiming that they have found his notebook from those days when he was a disciple? - Oh dear! If that is not their claim, then how do they explain the massive contradiction?

7] Of course, the other gospels were written to inform as the eye witnesses died off. How would Judas have fitted into this picture?

I am totally fed up of mindless books for the terminally simple and feeble TV programmes on National Geographic or The History Channel putting this kind of rubbish forward as if it has some historical value for Christianity. It has none whatsoever.

Text of my letter to the Yorkshire Post.

From a lower class background in the first instance where my parents were concerned, I could actually claim to be from true 'peasant stock' if I were to go back a further generation.
My wife is the daughter of a semi-skilled steelworker.
What we have in common is that the John Leggott Grammar School (as was) in Scunthorpe, lifted us and took us to university long before 'dumbing down' had become the prime social aim for the liberal left.
As a youngster I could not believe that grammar schooling was being phased out, so I wish to add several points to the debate now that I have experienced three different systems.
I fully accept that secondary moderns were often lacking but their improvement and leaving the grammar schools alone would have been the obvious way forward.
Sadly, grammar school provision was inconsistent throughout the nation and the often excellent technical schools were far from universal.
The biggest problem that comprehensives have caused arose from the disastrous slogan "A grammar school education for all."
I thought of this many times when teaching unwanted languages and causing unnecessary suffering to generations of pupils of very low ability so that this slogan might be applied.
Obviously, comprehensive schools have been forced to set and stream in order to put a sticking plaster over the countless problems - and it is just not enough. Ethos is all important.
Perhaps ironically, I now teach mixed ability in a tiny independent school and there it can and does work but only because class sizes are capped at 16 pupils and are often smaller.

Wrong: simply wrong.

'Two young children are to be adopted by a gay couple, despite the protests of their grandparents.
The devastated grandparents were told they would never see the youngsters again unless they dropped their opposition.
The couple, who cannot be named, wanted to give the five-year-old boy and his four year old sister a loving home themselves. But they were ruled to be too old - at 46 and 59.
For two years they fought for their rights to care for the children, whose 26-year- old mother is a recovering heroin addict.
They agreed to an adoption only after they faced being financially crippled by legal bills.
The final blow came when they were told the children were going to a gay household, even though several heterosexual couples wanted them.
When the grandfather protested, he was told: 'You can either accept it, and there's a chance you'll see the children twice a year, or you can take that stance and never see them again.'

As a Christian who actually believes in following God's Word, I know that homosexuality is unquestionably a sin.
As a democrat, I believe that people must make their own decisions - after all, it is they who must answer to God, not me.
As a fairminded man, I have no desire to see persecution of people just because they are homosexual, indeed I have several friends who are homosexual.
It is utterly wrong however, that people who have adopted a particular lifestyle, which by necessity does not include breeding, should be permitted to adopt children.
Lines must be drawn - and here, a line has been crossed.
We shall now be assailed from the liberal left with the 'human rights' of the homosexual couple involved, but please note that this can only be achieved by trampling on the rights of the grandparents!

LINKS: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1130066/They-say-old-care-grandchildren-Social-workers-hand-brother-sister-gay-men-adoption.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1130289/MELANIE-PHILLIPS-To-place-children-gay-men-adoptive-mother-father-available-sickening-assault-family-life.html

I note that the children have now expressed the view of wanting to stay with their grandparents!

Right on Herb!

"Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt."

Herbert Hoover; a man who really knew what he was talking about!

Come on UKIP!

UKIP is gaining members because of Ken Clarke's return to the Tory front bench. "Clarke's views on Europe are so out of line with the bulk of the Tory Party membership that they simply cannot stand being in the same party any more." said Nigel Farage, UKIP leader.
Mike Nattrass, UKIP MEP for the West Midlands said "Only UKIP is firmly committed to leaving the EU so that we can be free and independent once again." "Tory MEPs consistently transfer power to the EU and that Tory policy is confirmed by Clark's return."
The first defector in the West Midlands is Denis Allen. A former Mayor of Wellington, a town councillor in Wellington, a councillor on Telford and Wrekin Unitary Authority and former cabinet member there.

LINK: http://englandexpects.blogspot.com/2009/01/clarke-joins-front-bench-tories-start.html

Cannabis information abuse.

This Blog has attacked cannabis, its users and its apologists for the best part of three years.

This noxious substance is a wolf-in-sheep's-clothing and on the day that a foolish government finally admits its mistake and returns this crap to the category B status that it should never have lost, we find out about education authorities putting out booklets which effectively advertise the stuff!

It is simply beyond belief.

When will those sensible people who vote for the liberal left get the message that these people are not on our side as a society.

(Once again, my libertarianism-lite is slipping.)

LINK: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1128597/Parents-fury-cannabis-leaflets-distributed-schools.html

Making Major's government look like rank amateurs!

'The figures were revealed as four Labour peers are investigated over claims they were ready to take large sums to amend legislation. One, Lord Taylor of Blackburn, was forced to apologise yesterday after he was revealed in secret recordings to have said that an annual payment of £100,000 was ‘cheap for what I do’. '

Millwall must pay.

Following the dreadful violence and vandalism perpetrated by rioting Millwall fans last Saturday at Hull's KC Stadium, questions will need to be asked.
Why did the police not act against the rioters? Why did they just stand to one side and watch them? Why no baton charge as would have happened in possibly every other country in the world? [Ah. Human Rights, eh? - Our sick interpretation.]
What will now be Millwall's punishment? I am fully aware that there is a massive distinction between the very decent people who run the Millwall club and a tiny minority of verminous supporters.
Suggestions:
1] Millwall are pushing for promotion. They should have points deducted - I would suggest six.
2] Alternatively, they could be barred from next season's FA Cup - but not perhaps the best solution as the punishment is too distant from the crime.
3] A further possibility would be to ban the sale of away tickets to all Millwall fans until the end of the season. This would necessarily have Millwall reimbursing the home clubs concerned for loss of revenue.
4] Naturally, any perpetrators identified on camera must receive a life ban.

A fine to the club does little to help.
Genuine travelling supporters must learn that they must alienate and ostracise these worthless low lifes or their club's future success will be derailed.