Just to be sure...

In case any of you thought that it couldn't happen (again) it has happened (again). We have seen that this demented, mindless violence of extremists is not confined to any one spot on this planet. We see that Pakistan has its own stupidity, where public stoning STILL takes place (how is this even possible, in the 21st century?). We also see that a rather pathetic group, called the Taliban, have only one aim in life - to make everyones elses life a misery. http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/12/16/taliban-gunmen-storm-pakistani-military-school-killing-100_n_6332076.html?ncid=webmail1 This is utterly indefensible. It was bad enough with Malala, but to target a deliberately soft target sets the bar at a new low. The Taliban has no argument, they can make no argument, they are not worthy of even having an argument with! Those sad animals are now lepers in the real world - no-one will want to touch them, or have them in the same room or town as they are. They are finished. They just won't admit it. They deserve no sympathy in their passing, and the fact that they have made their families, their wives, their children all valid targets should be publicised for what it is - a mess, of the Talibans making. From now on, anyone even suggesting that they belong or are associated with the Taliban are to be taken outside and shot (in some countries this happens very often) and in some countries they should still be taken outside and given a good kicking. Then arrested. Then made to vanish. Taliban is now a dirty word, get used to it, and use it. Boko Harem? What a saddo bunch. Another group of animals, based around Nigeria. http://www.dw.de/boko-haram-barrage-against-western-values/a-18134419 They can't hold a conversation, and kidnap and rape is all that they know. They deserve another good kicking. Hamas? A professionl bunch of Arab animals, who don't care about the population of Gaza, except how they can be used as media fodder. Another kicking overdue. What most don't seem to get is that this phenomenal tragedy is global. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_designated_terrorist_organizations These sad and twisted people are everywhere, and with the latest ISIS messes in Syria this is all coming home - they fight in Syria and then get back to the home country, setting up terror cells there. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_Levant You can't talk to these vile people, so why delude yourself? Take them out, before they take you out - and they do want to take you out - outside, up against a wall, and shoot you! If you are a follower of that thing called Islam, WHY??? What is it about Islam that makes you accept all of this, while the world is crumbling around you? It's like saying the Nazi party wasn't so bad. At least they had the trains running on time. It's time for the world to take stock. It cannot continue - the United Nations has been a travesty for a few years, and will get worse, as more and more of it is hijacked by the Arab nations and the media. Lies piled on top of lies.

Stop speaking with authority on subjects that you don't understand!

This man is a fool, and what is worse, he is clearly an ignorant fool: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2014/10/catholic-archbishop-ebola-is-punishment-from-god-for-homosexuality/ He, like many in his position of 'power' abuse that power. They speak with conviction on subjects that they obviously do not understand, to audiences who will accept what he says. That just adds to the tragedy. Although it was said a while ago, this man was also an ignorant fool, speaking with authority on a subject that he clearly didn't understand: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/mar/17/pope-africa-condoms-aids For completely different reasons, this statement summed up the ignorant thinking of the time (1912): http://www.historyonthenet.com/titanic/unsinkable.htm This is one of the saddest things: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-26754992. people who 'commit adultery' or 'commit blasphemy' are also executed? Huh? How's that? I curse your God, or some other God, and that (in some countries) is a capital crime? This again is where some people have risen to the top of the tree, and assume that THAT gives them the right to tell everyone else what to do, how to do it, or even how to think - or not to think! The world is tiny enough, and how there can be so many countries laughingly calling themselves 'civilised' is pathetic. Many countries like to progress, to move on with things, and there are so many countries that are committed to keeping us back in the Dark Ages (Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, and many more. There is something called BDS (apparently) which is a 'movement' for keeping away from Israel, and all things that Israel may make - foods, technology, anything. They miss the point that THAT kind of operation is a blind one. It achieves nothing positive, and starts to alienate people, in an already fragile world. Stop BDS-ing!

I do not wish to fund terrorist-based ideologies!

The DEC (Disasters Emergency Committee) has just dropped me an email. I must assume that they still have my details after I sent them some money towards that nightmare time when the tsunami hit the Far East and decimated some many countries, killing thousands. That was way back in 2004. Which brings me neatly on to the Middle East, and in particular Gaza and Israel. There have been running battles for years between these two ‘countries’ (Israel is a country, I don’t actually know what category Gaza falls into – is it a country?). Most of the time all that we see is the verbal diarrhoea, mostly from the ‘leaders’ of Gaza – the PA and Hamas. The PA seems to be a sad waste of everyones time, and Hamas is just a murderous enterprise who seem to publically want to annihilate Israel and its entire population. The latest stretch of imagination is that we (the rest of the world) is now going to subsidise the rebuilding of Gaza by donating some hundreds of millions of dollars. Why? If I read this correctly in the past we have ‘subsidised’ Gaza to already ridiculous amounts, and it turns out that we have been paying for the people of Gaza to build a terrorist network, and a set of tunnels that can have only one purpose, that of mass murder of the Israelis. Why are we now being so damned Politically Correct that we are giving even more money to the PA and Hamas, so that they can laugh at the West (again) and start to rebuild their messy terror systems (again!). I object to this – I am not in the habit of actively funding terrorists, so this current UK government has lost my support (yes, it had it, initially). It has systematically ignored so many real problems and made mountains out of mole-hill sized problems. The recent rise of UKIP will bring a lot of hope to a very disillusioned population, and I can only trust that the voters apathy of recent years, where we struggle to get even 50% turnout, will change. Your vote will count, and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

Palestine? Where the hell is that?

There are recent items in the press about people and countries recognising this thing called Palestine. That is more than a little iffy, as this 'thing' called Palestine isn't. It isn't on maps, it isn't delimited by borders, and I'm pretty sure no-one has the faintest idea what a person from this so-called country would be called. Palestine is not a country. Go on, check it. It isn't there. How do you recognise something that isn't there? It's worse than saying dark matter, as we have a notion that dark matter does exist in some form, somewhere. Palestine does not! If however you are referring to Gaza, then why are you allowing yourself to be confused? Or are you one of those doing the confusing? Are you someone from that murderous regime called Hamas, that does not value life at all (except your own skin, I suppose), or are you someone from the PA, that Arafat-manufacturered entity that somehow has been given a form of 'legitimacy' by the UN? What a joke! This whole story could not have been dreamed up by anyones wildest nightmares! At the next UK election, vote! Don't dither, don't faff or come up with those famous cheap excuses - vote! A little later in the USA - vote! If you are in a country that allows you to vote, the use it - if you don't then you may find that at the time of the next election you cannot vote at all!

Vote in the UK!

The DEC (Disasters Emergency Committee) has just dropped me an email. I must assume that they still have my details after I sent them some money towards that nightmare time when the tsunami hit the Far East and decimated so many countries, killing thousands. That was way back in 2004. Which brings me neatly on to the Middle East, and in particular Gaza and Israel. There have been running battles for years between these two ‘countries’ (Israel is a country, I don’t actually know what category Gaza falls into – is it a country?). Most of the time all that we see is the verbal diarrhoea, mostly from the ‘leaders’ of Gaza – the PA and Hamas. The PA seems to be a sad waste of everyones time, and Hamas is just a murderous enterprise who seem to publically want to annihilate Israel and its entire population. The latest stretch of imagination is that we (the rest of the world) is now going to subsidise the rebuilding of Gaza by donating some hundreds of millions of dollars. Why? If I read this correctly, in the past we have ‘subsidised’ Gaza to already ridiculous amounts, and it turns out that we have been paying for the people of Gaza to build a terrorist network, and a set of tunnels that can have only one purpose, that of mass murder of the Israelis. Why are we now being so damned Politically Correct that we are giving even more money to the PA and Hamas, so that they can laugh at the West (again) and start to rebuild their messy terror systems (again!). I object to this – I am not in the habit of actively funding terrorists, so this current UK government has lost my support (yes, it had it, initially). It has systematically ignored so many real problems and made mountains out of mole-hill sized problems. The recent rise of UKIP will bring a lot of hope to a very disillusioned population, and I can only trust that the voters apathy of recent years, where we struggle to get even 50% turnout will change. Your vote will count, and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

is it really that difficult? REALLY?

There are some people that start the day well, and find that it has all changed, often within minutes. You know, that time that the alarm rings, or the sun comes through, waking you up, and somehow you start with a smile on your face, and a warm fuzzy glow. Within ten minutes you usually find that the alarm went off early or late, or that the sun very quickly vanishes behind the rain clouds. You might put the radio on, and then regret it as the news tells you endless amounts of doom and gloom are coming your way – those nasty people will be in your street before the week is out! The Middle East is in melt-down (again!), some boat refugees are trying to get to Australia (and failing), or the USA Christian Far Right are making yet another push at getting one of their puppets into the White House. Sometimes it’s quite depressing. When you think about it – really think about it – most people actually want a quiet life. Go on, admit it. There is little better than having a safe night’s sleep, and waking up, with a clear idea that you are going to see your family, or your family is coming to see you, and then you can potter around the garden for a bit, mow the lawn, all that ‘usual’ stuff. You don’t have to worry about where the next missile is coming from, or where it’s going to land. You don’t have to worry whether some homicidal maniac with a machete is going to go ‘postal’ in your street, and start to attack the local population – hey, you actually like some of your neighbours! As a rule, not too many people like too many surprises – they may jump at close-by thunder, at the same time admiring the lightning (but having huge respect for it). It takes a strange set of people to be willing to get violent with others (no matter how much you dislike them!). To pass that hatred off as a Divine Intervention is just plain ridiculous – it’s the same as having voices in your head, and we sometimes lock people up for that sort of behaviour! How anyone today can make some outrageous claim that the actions that they do are part of some ‘Gods’ plan is crazy – it makes no sense, no matter how much you look at it, or however many different ways you try to re-interpret it. This is supposed to be the 21st century – that means that this Jesus character was around more than 2,000 years ago. Jesus was Jewish, by the way – don’t forget that! During the last 2,000 years (or so) we have seen this planet nearly tear itself apart so many times that it’s pointless to try to count them! In the 1900’s we started quietly, with the invention of the aeroplane. I’m sure that the Wright brothers had no idea that with a short few years the plane would be used to such good effect in World War I. In the intervening years, leading up to WWII, the plane advanced even more. We saw huge monsters being used to carry massive bomb payloads between 1939 and 1945. In forty years the plane had utterly changed, and the world had changed with it. Basic gunnery at the start of the 1900’s changed during the war years, too. To end up with an atom bomb by 1945 was quite literally ground breaking stuff. In this troubled year of 2014 we are seeing too may divisions between people, for too many reasons. The joke that was the Arab Spring has descended into some form of Arab Hell for thousands of people. Although the recent Israel-Gaza conflict was hyped up to be some form of genocide, the people who labelled it so seem to have ignored the rest of the world, where genocide was truly being practiced. Syria is a nightmare, with this IS group behaving like the world’s worst school bullies, while having access to some real armament. This is the Khmer Rouge Killing Fields all over again, and the world does what it usually does in these situations, and talks about what actions may be taken. We have good-hearted people viciously butchered for all the world to see, and we sent in a few flights to pop a few missiles at what we hope are viable targets. This cannot continue, not in this form. If it is allowed to grow, IS will ruin what is left of Syria and Iraq, and its vile philosophy will pollute the neighbouring countries. It needs trashing, now, while it is still possible to do so.

26th August 2014

Oh dear. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. Well, what else can I say? We have a melt down of epic proportions in the Middle East (again, do I hear someone say?), where Syria is a Hells Kitchen, close to a million dead over the last few (not very many) years, millions displaced, refugees all over the place, a rise in this odd event called ISIS or ISIL or just IS, depending on who you talk to. We have Egypt trying its best to stem the terrorism flow of arms into this odd 'country' (it isn't) called Gaza (Wait - news just in: it's all smiles and roses after all. Just like it was back in 2012...http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/26/gaza-ceasefire-israel-palestinians-halt-fighting) (if you believe this you are a fool!). What? Most of them are civilians? According to the statistics of who? Hamas? Well you can throw that one away - it's a worthless statistic. Like any 'piece' of 'information' that comes out of Gaza, it's rubbish. Proven. Ignore it, and move on. I have no proof (I have not experienced it directly myself) but at a pinch I would take the words from a democracy in the Middle East rather than the words from some terrorist-organised 'sponsor'. It makes no sense to 'trust' someone who is a blatant lier - Hamas, the PA, Al Qu...and many other Middle Eastern organisations. They have proven themseleves to be untrustworthy. Time and time again! They announce to the world some Israeli massacre, and within minutes it is around the world, quoted as proof, as valid, as real. Only a day or so later does the truth catch up with the lies, but by then the damage is done. Helloooo! http://thinkexist.com/quotation/a_lie_can_travel_halfway_around_the_world_while/189781.html Think of what you are doing. Go on, be radical, and THINK! For yourself, not what some utter twat in a silly hat has told you, or what you read on the Internet (and yes, that includes what I am writing here), or what some self-appointed delusional 'religious authority' (there is no such animal) (and I use that phrase most carefully) has told you. THINK! For yourself! That is you - think! While you can! We have a clear indication of what is happening around the world, and the appalling lack of action on the part of the 'leaders' of the free world. A journalist (what the hell was he doing there?) is publicly murdered, and then this gets posted to the Internet. Huh? Some egotistical self-centered bullies (the school yard type) get some modern technology (guns and stuff) and then think that they can bully the rest of the world into some form of submission? I think you need to rethink that part, dummbo! A while back, a news journalist was hands off - it didn't matter who he was, or where he was from, he was hands off. Do not touch. Instead we have this madness that is ISIL calling the shots and publicly murdering him. Well, that sums up ISIL - a complete waste of space, from start to finish. There will be no caliphate, no manic freak show of strength, no Islam 'supremacy' - after that example of what we can expect from ISIL what else do you want? They are to be eliminated. As they would show no mercy, so shall they get none. Oh, yes, that little skiff between Israel and Gaza? Get real people. Deal with the major problems, or else you will find that you no longer can!

Joan Rivers and Free Speech!

There we are: http://www.aol.co.uk/article/2014/08/14/call-to-ban-rivers-after-gaza-tirade/20946928/?ncid=webmail2 This sums it up. It sums up the current lack of thinking that we are faced with in the world, on a daily basis. People are just too dumb! It looks as though the name of Islam, Gaza, Palestine, the Middle East, and a whole lot more cannot be mentioned, as it upsets the sensitivities of some people. Not Joan, apparently. I am not a fan of Joan, I don't like her acid tongue, but she calls a spade a spade! Good for her. If she is being threatened with some form of censorship, then how? On what basis? What has she said that has upset some pathetic (oops, sensitive) people? Nothing really. She has merely mentioned that Hamas and the occupants of Gaza started this latest fiasco, years ago. They have diverted millions of dollars of aid (that did not get to the person in the street; it did however get to the person under the street), and built dozens of tunnels. Why? Why build tunnels? Are the Gaza people being shelled or bombed on a daily basis? No (until recently, you understand). There were no missiles randomly landing, threatening the lives of thousands of civilians. They simply were not there! So, why the tunnels? Come on, you may play dumb, but no-body is that dumb. Have you read any of the Hamas charter? No? Why not? Oh, you should do. It's like being a good Christian, but never having really read the Bible - you simply don't know what you are talking about! Read it, and weep: http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/www.thejerusalemfund.org/carryover/documents/charter.html?chocaid=397 Now, for all you bleeding-heart Anti-Israel types, who have have been bleating on recently about the 'genocide' taking place in Gaza. (1) You clearly have no understanding of what Genocide is, and (2) you clearly support the Gaza people without understanding just what their mind-set is. If I get called names, and told that I shouldn't take the name of someone's god in vain, then why do I have to put up with their sickening announcements and actions, every single damned day? Why do I have to read about the latest Islam-based group of utterly mad fools, who are only intent in massacre after massacre being created, with as many as they can being elimintaed (all in the name of Peace, you understand) http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/isis-in-iraq-us-far-less-likely-to-evacuate-yazidis-trapped-on-mount-sinjar-9667827.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-22410392 So, what this means id that Islam is now officially the worlds nastiest, vilest, and lowest social group that you can imagine - it will continue to descend into its own form of social 'group', wioing out anyone and anything that stands in its way. Islam cannot even agree with Islam; what chance does the rest of the world have? http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/07/07/isis-blow-up-heretical-shia-mosques-in-mosul-pictures_n_5563860.html Christians aren't that different - in the USA its the apathy of the voters that has allowed so many Christian-based senators and congress people. It's time for a change - UKIP next year, maybe? But while we are waiting, many thousands more will be dead, thanks to the rise of insanity, and the utter contempt that those in power have for the rest of the population. Oh, yes - back to Joan Rivers. I don't care if this petition gets a few million votes, is she continues to talk like that she is welcome in my country, while it still is my country. If it ever looks like becoming some part of a disgusting Caliphate then I'm off - Australia, if they'll have me. New Zealand? Speak out - be heard, while you still can be heard!

August 2014 All ready to blame Israel? Again?

If anyone says that they belong to a relgion of peace, or that they think that religion is somehow a good thing, walk away. You are conversing with the Devil. Pretty good, as I don't think that there IS a Devil, but never mind... At the start of August, 2014, we are seeing daily news reports of the conflict between Israel and the occupants of Gaza. More bodies, more rockets, more hatred, more crying children. Oh, yes, the children, the women, the old, the infirm, all are somehow targets for Israel. So they say. I doubt that anything told to the worlds press from Gaza can be trusted. At least Israel tries its best to verify things! Its a slanging match - you shout, I shout, they shout louder...seriously, there will be no winners from this - only a better class of losing. The media pay attention to the wackos, those who should just STFU! Take this one: disproportionate. Apparently Israel is using a 'disproportionate' amount of force. What? That is not even a valid statement. It is meaningless. Are you telling me that if a burglar comes in with a knife, and threatens me and my whole family, then because I have a gun I can't use it? I have to go to the kitchen and find a similar knife, and hope I can overcome this burglar? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-28619671 That is a stupid thing to even suggest. (1) Israel has been fighting one war or another since it was born. (2) I do believe that Israel does not want this confrontation, but (3) it has been forced on them. Instead of picking apart Israels plans they should be applauded for being as concerned as they are with keeping casualties down. Hamas has shown that is has no such notion - they want more casualties, as this will reflect badly on Israel. The people of Gaza are mad to have voted in these animals. This guy is delusional: http://www.leksikon.org/images/gaza20090108carter.pdf Peace? Peace in our time? we are at least three generations into Israel, and look how close we are to peace. Nowhere. You simply cannot trust much of what the media says - where did they get their information? From Hamas? Lies, lies, lies... It seems that Gaza has an endless supply of these rockets, which are far from the 'home-made' label being used. They can fly many miles and kill just as easily as more sophisticated and larger rockets. End the supply of the arms to Gaza. Then there are foolish people who are calling for BDS against Israel. Ban the sale of arms to Israel! Do you realise what that would mean? Israel wouldn't last a few weeks, and Hamas would win. Then we will begin to see a REAL genocide! Hamas is vile, it's people are vile, and their ideas of the modern world have no place in it, so why are they even given air space? They are mad, bad, and very dangerous people, and should be treated as such. Oh yes - those tunnels? Anyone care to guess their purpose? Peaceful, perhaps? Something that takes thousands of tons of supplied concrete and makes raid tunnels, with the sole purpose of mass murder is a dreadful machinery that should be dismantled, and way we can. I object strongly that my country is sending my money over to Gaza - I am subsidising terrorism!

And so to war! Again! In case anyone has been asleep, Israel has 'invaded' Gaza, and proceeded to 'massacre' lots of people, amounting to some as a 'genocide'. Did you notice all those 'quotes'? That means that they are so-called... Israel has had enough of rockets being fired from Gaza into its lands, with no definite plan or target, other than to 'kill the Jews'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas_Covenant This amounts to a scary read. If any government, anywhere, announces to the world that they have very little plans for their area, except kill the Jews, then I think a few people would be upset. Why, then, has Gaza had millions of tax dollars given to it? It amounts to me subsidising terrorism, and I strongly object to that! So, why has Gaza been invaded? http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/02/tunnels-hamas-israel-struggle-gaza-war It isn't hard to see that these tunnels are long and well thought out. They are not like Tom, Dick or Harry, these are expensive enterprises, taking years to build. And why have they been built, I hear you ask? To invade! To get an easy access into Israel, where they would plan to do the most damage that they could. The Israeli casualties would be in the thousands. Look at them - http://mashable.com/2014/08/04/the-tunnels-in-gaza/ As has been mentioned, the concrete used in the tunnels would have built schools, hospitals and more, benefitting the Gaza community, instead of which the population has gone short, because Hamas (and one must suppose) the PA are madly besotted with the notion of eliminating Israel. Why? What is it about this tiny country that makes it such a target for most of the Arab world? Even the United Nations (Useless Nations) seems to have been highjacked by an Arab-based set who will jump up and down with excitement over anything that Israel does, but will casually ignore all attrocities delivered elsewhere in the world. http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/joseph-klein/the-un-continues-to-blame-israel-for-everything/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-un-continues-to-blame-israel-for-everything http://www.cija.ca/issues/un-reform/ http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/07/16/israels-un-ambassador-calls-for-immediate-suspension-of-unrwa-spokesman-chris-gunness/http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/07/16/israels-un-ambassador-calls-for-immediate-suspension-of-unrwa-spokesman-chris-gunness/ Such nice people: http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/08/06/hamas-shoots-fatah-member-in-legs-forces-him-to-be-human-shield/ http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/08/05/france-24-reporter-reveals-hamas-rocket-launcher-fired-near-civilians-united-nations-facility-and-reporters-video/ At the end of it all, we have seen that the Gaza 'news' is heavily doctored, and in a lot of cases faked. Screams of 'Israel did this' are simply lies, as we have later found out after all the mud slinging. The latest is for the media to get 'big names' on the wagon, calling for an end to the so-called genocide (it isn't genocide - you really need to check your dictionaries before you start to use log words that you clearly don't understand). Thankfully there are big names who will speak out about the crass utterings of some people: https://uk.yahoo.com/movies/jon-voight-slams-ignorant-javier-bardem-and-penelope-93760158541.html

Dangerous times...

Some people are so mad it is almost impossible to take them seriously – unfortunately we have to take them seriously, because they are so damned dangerous! http://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2014/06/muslims-outraged-after-saudi-soldier-puts-foot-on-holy-rock/ That’s a shame. Much that Islam does raises few eyebrows (because it’s so patently nuts!) these days (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-27633227; http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-27619669; http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2510542/Britains-white-honour-killing-Teenager-brutally-murdered-Muslim-lover-exposing-relationship-family.html) and we in the UK seem so damnably sensitive to not upset ‘their’ sensitivities. This results in the UK being trampled, legally and socially, and it is getting worse, because few people are in a position to stand up and object. The UKIP successes in the recent MEP elections raises a few eyebrows, too. Are they racist? Are they left wing or right wing? And who cares – really, who cares? Not even 40% of those who could vote did vote! That means that fewer than 40% of the British public have bothered, and made their stamp, and the other 60% have got to put up with the results. And this is a democracy? I think it’s a failing democracy, and it is sadder by the fact that we are supposed to be the home of democracy and decent elections. It will be interesting to see what happens this time next year, at the UK elections. Will UKIP do damage, or will the fickle UK public fall back on the two-party scenario? We shall see… The current power-plays around the world are a real threat to world peace – we have had centuries of blood and tears, and having survived the mess of the 1900’s I hoped that the 21st century would be a time of enlightenment, not a reversion to primitive mentality from hundreds of years ago. Whatever happens in the elections – and I include the USA ones, which are not far away – is vital for the next few decades. Do we submit to ancient ideologies that honestly have no place in the modern world, or do we identify borders and limits, and enforce them? In spite of the limitations of the modern political systems in the West, they are the best that we have! To allow Islam to destroy is literally suicide for millions of people, and it must be prevented. We must have decent legal processes in place for all of us to survive.

A waste of good Oxygen

There are people on this planet who clearly should not be. On this planet, that is. It would be better for all if they were under it (about 6 feet will do) or off it completely. It's not hard to find these 'people' (I use the term loosely...). They are animals, with no real understanding of the world today. They live in some centuries-old mentality, and expect all others to accept this! http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/05/05/boko-haram-girls-nigeria-kidnap_n_5267267.html?1399303308&icid=maing-grid7|ukt3|dl1|sec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D262236 These animals are a waste of good Oxygen. They really would not be missed if we could move them to the moon, or somewhere else.

War is declared!

Just in case you are someone who has not yet heard, the war has been declared. War? What? A war, declared? Where is this war, I hear you ask? It is all around you, people – all around. All you have to do is open your eyes, and take a look – take a good look. Just to confuse you, it is not one of those ‘offence’ wars, one where one side tries to beat the crap out of the other. It is a very subtle war, one that has been developing for the last few decades. It is a war of ideologies, where my ‘God’ is better than your ‘God;, or better than your ‘no-God’. It is a war that pitches a dark, hidden foe against many main-stream countries – notably what we currently call the West. It is in the press, mainly using Islam as the main antagonist, but it is more widespread, and far more ‘dirty’ then we first thought. In the USA, that so-called ‘bastion’ of humanity, the country with the moral high-ground (it does not have the moral high-ground, by the way. It has not had that for many years) we find that the two main parties – the Republicans and the Democrats are at war, fighting for the next election to go their way. The dirty tricks abound, and the Republicans (how does anyone actually vote for these people?) are out to control your lives, from the top down. The war that has been running for some years now is being fought over control – it is little different to the ideals of early Russia where the elite kept the rest in ignorance for decade after decade. It continues still, in other guises, true, but it is still the same war, the same battles. The two main parties are poles apart: http://www.diffen.com/difference/Democrat_vs_Republican In Britain we have recently been told that people want the Christian ‘way of life’ back into the main-stream. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/21/jack-straw-support-david-cameron-christian-britain Why? In the name of whatever you may hold holy, why? I had to read this, with a shock at some of the phrasing: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/17/christianity-compels-me-to-make-difference We are still faced with Governments and their ministers promoting their faith-based agendas – if it is of a faith, then it must be OK, somehow acceptable. This brings me neatly on to the depressing subject of the Middle East. Almost all of those countries are despotic, ruthless, religious-doctrine ruled. And it shows. We have Saudi Arabia and all the nightmares of that country, Iran, with its ever-closer nuclear program, and all the rest. I will include a nuclear Israel in this list, as it is physically within the Middle East, but may as well be a million miles from it, and centuries ahead of the level of the thinking for that area. I see no reason to trust any single country within that area, except Israel. They truly stand alone, against all their neighbours. The current fiasco of the USA government has not helped them recently. Any government, wherever it is, but be a secular one. To be a government run on religious doctrine and other antiquated ideas is to damn that country – it simply does not belong in the 21st century!

Religion? You call this a Religion? Nah, I'll pass.

I suppose that, after the 'wonders' of Christianity, I just had to have a few words about its sort-of cousin, Islam. This is the one that preaches that it is a religion of peace, all the while stoning women to death in obscure villages in Pakistan, and burning people as witches elsewhere. I could easily find a fuller list of modern-day horrors from this faith. In the 21st century! I will state here that I am sure I have worked with followers of Islam, and I either haven't known or haven't cared. They have been really nice people, a joy to know. Elsewhere we can only recoil in horror at the news entries which assault us on a daily basis. Sunni and Shi'ite simply do not get along, and the other denominations (yes, there are a few: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam#Denominations) simply cannot agree on the ground rules. Every week in Afghanistan or Iraq someone has blown up a market-place, killing dozens, and injuring dozens more. This is what passes for 'normal' in some parts of the world. In the time that we have had so far of the 21st century it has been something of a nightmare. That horrific day in the USA that we call 9/11 brought it home to the world - terror is here, and now. It is no longer in some far-off country that we simply couldn't point to - it is in the town of city that you live in! Yes, there is a list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_terrorism#21st_century I remember the London 2005 only too well – one of my daughters sent me a text, saying that she was alright, and up to then I hadn’t heard. So no-one is safe, these days, and it all stems from Islam. Or does it? What is this Islam? If you read up on it (and I am no expert!) then it is the revelations told to Muhammed by Gabriel, and presumably others. A good insight is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam although it tends to go on a bit… The overall result of this is that like all the other faiths, Islam cannot agree! A branch of Islam is at odds with another branch or Islam, in the same way that the Catholics and the Protestants of Northern Ireland are both Christian, but disagree enormously on just about everything! If any faith cannot agree within itself, then how are we expected to take it seriously? How are we expected to listen to any form of discussion from these different sects? Anyway, back to Islam… look up Sharia law – it is the form of internal legal processes that Islam has. On the face of it, it would seem to be a good idea, as it would take a lot of the pressure off the already strained British legal system. But then you start to investigate, to look behind the scenes… what does this Sharia ‘law’ actually offer? Not much it seems. Islam is a faith that defaults all women to the class of second-rate – no woman can have the status of a man – it’s in the print! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_Islam I really think that state and faith have no part to play in each others lives: http://www.secularism.org.uk/what-is-secularism.html http://www.light-of-life.com/eng/reveal/ http://www.islamswomen.com/ and then reality will creep in: http://www.answering-islam.org/Authors/Arlandson/women_inferior.htm http://www.clarionproject.org/understanding-islamism/womens-rights-under-sharia the articles, and people you may speak to, will promote the equality, but in reality there is no such thing. Islam is a farce, damning all women be second class – and worse!

Religion? Nah, I'll pass...:(

Religion. There, I have started, and so I'll finish. What is this 'religion' thing? Point by point, if anyone would ever look at it, it fails, miserably. You are not born a Christian person, anymore than you are born an Islamic person or a Jewish person, or any one of the hundreds of other flavours of Religion. You are, most likely, someone who is born with complete innocence, a total lack of understanding of hatred, bigotry, and Religion. What are these things to you, when you have just been born? They are nothing. Unfortunately, whatever household you are born into will have its own history of 'sheeple' - no-one really analyses it, or gives it any kind of rational explore. Your father may well be Christian, as his father was before him, and so on, for as long as the records will show. You are then exposed to the Church, and effectively brainwashed for the next few years. You will be told that this is the right way to do things. In fact, you will be told that this is the only way to do things! The exposure to the Bible will be selective - you will not get to see the Dark Side of the Bible, unless you actually sit down, and read it through, cover to cover. You will certainly not be told of the many inconsistencies within those pages - how one book tells you one thing, and then that is contradicted by somewhere else. Back when I was growing up, we only had Christianity, and in the sleepy suburbia that I got to know there was virtually no exposure to anything other than Christianity. We had school assembly, all sang lahdida, said the prayers, etc, etc, much as we did in Church. So, what is this Bible? The version we have - version! That's a good start. The word of God, and we are looking at a particular version of the word of God! Anyway, the version we mainly use is this King James one - http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/. This is where we get into muddy waters. Point number one - the Bible was most definitely NOT written in English! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_James_Version. The Bible is a collection of various texts, all from various sources. Whatever happened to this, then? Talk about selective editing! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_apocrypha I really doubt that the translators would have been impartial, as they were all (I don't doubt) extremely intelligent people, obviously capable of dealing with more than just English, but they were of the Church! Since they were all Clergy, how accurate and impartial would their translations have been? Seriously, if you think for a moment that they would have done a good professional job of translating, then you are a fool! So we have a Bible that has been translated from previous translations, possibly quite a few times, by different people, in different centuries, each with different ‘reasons’, so how accurate is this Word of God? Since we have some of the history http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vetus_Latina is shocking reading, as it outlines some of the starting points which eventually lead up to the current Bible. Then came http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulgate and along the way http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexapla, and http://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/11765-origen#374 and http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Catholic_Encyclopedia_%281913%29/Hexapla We clearly have a Bible which has grown over centuries, been changed, added to (and one must assume deleted from?) by many, many people. How can you truly say that the modern interpretation of the writings that amount to the current Bible can be even remotely the Word of God?