January 2010
11 posts
On The Importance Of Validation
Remember when you were a child and were about to jump into the pool, go down the slide or kick the football? You would almost always want somebody to be watching. ‘Mum watch this’ or ‘dad look, I’m jumping over it’. The reason you did it was because you wanted to be seen as important and not to be ignored. It’s Darwinian, the chimp that was ignored by the others in its group would have...
Would I Ban The Burqa?
This week France moved closer to banning the burqa. I’m not going to be politically correct for sake of it, I don’t like the burqa. I think it degrades both women and men by suggesting that woman can’t be allowed to dress themselves and all men do is oggle women. Its sexist and goes against the reality that we are all just apes who fancy each other like it or not. It is a...
Look North
We can spend our whole lives arguing about what works best in politics. We could speculate until the end of time. Or we could just look at what works. On lists of nations according to standard’s of living, health and happiness one country is top of almost every list. In the UK and France you get 6 months paid maternity leave but here you get a full year. If you have problems using...
Why Obama's Unpopular & What He Should Do About It
So it’s been a year of Obama’s America, but why is he losing so much of his popularity? This week his approval rating dropped further and his party lost an important election. In a previous blog entree I predicted he would bring about health care reform despite the best efforts of lobbyists and Fox News. He might still do this but I’m a lot more pessimistic then I was when I wrote that. But...
On The Future Of Falmouth
I live just outside the little Cornish town of Falmouth. The Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society or Poly as its always been known, has been part of Falmouth since 1833. It’s classical architecture and stylish interior has hosted art throughout three centuries. Until recently it was place to watch alternative cinema 11 days into its 177th year in existence it announced that it’s closing down. A...
How To Avoid World War Three
We all have beliefs and ideas that we view to be true and if they mean anything to us then it becomes easy to despise people who think in the opposite direction. ‘Oh I hate that Nick Griffin, isn’t he a bad man’ or ‘Jesus if a dog was dumb as Boris Johnson they would have shot it by now’. I think we all fall into that trap now and again.
Like it or not there are millions of people that go...
Tory Party Vs Homosexuals
Some interesting facts printed in The Guardian about our next government and thier commitment to equality.
• Ten out of 32 members of the shadow cabinet voted against at least one piece of gay rights legislation. The shadow Europe minister, Mark Francois, voted against all four.
• David Cameron, Kenneth Clarke, Mark Francois, Chris Grayling, William Hague, Francis Maude, Patrick McLoughlin,...
Public Image Is Limited
Imagine that for the last two years you have been aware of a very big ball in the sky that appears to be made of horse shit. It’s growing day by day and its headed right for you. You realize that it’s going to hit you and all you can do is wait. Well that’s what it’s been like for me watching David Cameron being ahead in the polls and getting closer to Downing Street every...
How Not To Live You're Life
Sometimes we become aware of people who shame humanity by their words or actions, you could say we need them to remind us that we are all just animals, but today I saw somebody who made me ashamed to part of the animal kingdom. He does not care about the people he offends and has no real reason to do so. In 1976 an american preacher called Pat Robertson insisted for six years that the world...
Retreat Of The Nutters
Shows over, nothing to see here, fight cancelled. “We at Islam4UK have decided, after consultation with others including our Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammad, that no more could be achieved even if a procession were to take place in Wootton Bassett, we have successfully highlighted the plight of Muslims in Afghanistan”. My arse, nobody talked about “the plight of Muslims in...
Rise Of The Nutters
So this week the bigoted muslim maniac Anjam Choudary (openly in favor of stoning homosexuals to death) announced that he and his fellow nutters would march though the town of Wotton Basset for a tasteless publicity stunt and publicity is what he got. Within 24 hours he had appeared on radio 5, talksport, sun radio and Sky News. They were just the interviews I saw. Quickly the British National...