Ah... it's not often i bother to post on here anymore. Starrman's broadcasts, jacaranda's continuous spamming of porn sites, and various other wishy washy stuff, gets on my nerves. If i see one more person go on about that damned lion which goes and hugs the people from x amount of years ago, i might well vom! No -one mentions how the other lion that came down and was friendly was shot a few weeks later for mauling someone.

 However, it has to be said... I do love a good debate, and there were a few of those on here many moons ago before the paranoia set in and people saw a different opinion as "belittling", because it couldn't be possible to have another way of looking at something other than their own!

One of those subjects was about man made global warming. I've said from the beginning... it was absolute rubbish, and now it finally does seem to be the case. Carbon footprint shmutprint I say! lol Here is an excerpt from the article I'm linking to,

 "First, all over the world, temperatures have been dropping in a way wholly unpredicted by all those computer models which have been used as the main drivers of the scare. Last winter, as temperatures plummeted, many parts of the world had snowfalls on a scale not seen for decades. This winter, with the whole of Canada and half the US under snow, looks likely to be even worse. After several years flatlining, global temperatures have dropped sharply enough to cancel out much of their net rise in the 20th century."

 And another part...

Secondly, 2008 was the year when any pretence that there was a "scientific consensus" in favour of man-made global warming collapsed. At long last, as in the Manhattan Declaration last March, hundreds of proper scientists, including many of the world's most eminent climate experts, have been rallying to pour scorn on that "consensus" which was only a politically engineered artifact, based on ever more blatantly manipulated data and computer models programmed to produce no more than convenient fictions.

Ahhh... it's nice to see such things from the Daily telegraph, one of the most respected newspapers in the Uk! Go read the whole article, then take your short haul flight to where-ever. More people flying will bring prices down and I quite like flying!!

Ah... i deemed this so interesting i mailed it to myself in 2003. Upon nosying at an old email addy I found it again, googled it and could only find one other instance of this existing! Hmmm! 

THE UNITED NATIONS World Health Organization (WHO) actively promotes the use
of fluoride in water purification, beverages, toothpaste, mouthwash, topical
gels, dietary supplements and food. If the WHO advocates fluoride that is
reason enough to avoid any products containing fluoride. But the medical
journal, Neurotoxicology and Teratology Vol 17, No.2, 1995 provide urgent
compelling reasons.

Researchers Phyllis J. Mullenix, Department of Toxicology, Forsyth Research
Institute, Boston; Ann Schunior, also of Forsyth; Pamela K. Denbesten,
Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Eastman Dental Center, Rochester, New
York, and William J. Kernan, Veterinary Diagnosis Laboratory, Iowa State
University asserted that "There have been reports from Chinese investigators
that high levels of fluoride in drinking water (3 to 11 ppm -- parts per
million) affect the nervous system directly without first causing physical
deformations from skeletal fluorosis."

"One study of adult humans," states their report, "found attention affected
by sublingual drops containing 100 ppm of sodium fluoride [NaF], an exposure
level potentially relevant to humans, because toothpastes contain 1000 to
1500 ppm and mouth washes contain 230 to 900 ppm fluoride. Also," they
continue" effects on behavior were related to levels of fluoride found in
plasma and in different regions of the brain." The observers found that it
was fluoride levels in plasma, not fluoride levels of exposure, which best
predicted effects on behavior. They observed that "similar plasma fluoride
levels... have been found in humans ingesting 5 to 10 ppm fluoride in
drinking water...."

The authors point out that theirs is the first laboratory study to
demonstrate that the central nervous system's functional output is
vulnerable to fluoride and that fluoride accumulates in brain tissues.
Speaking of the conclusions drawn from their study of fluoride use and
toxicity levels the authors state, "A generic behavioral pattern disruption
as found in this study can be indicative of a potential for motor
dysfunction, IQ deficits and/or learning disabilities in humans."

Dr. Frank Bertrand of Stilfontein, South Africa, commenting on the
Neurotoxicology and Teratology study notes: "Fluoride is a very strong
oxidizing agent and wiII destroy vitamin E and other anti-oxidents... but
most dangerous of all is probably the fluoride gel used in dental surgery.
The WHO recommends a 2.72% NaF [also known as acidulated phosphate
fluoride]." That is 12,300 ppm! "Fluoride in an acid medium," continues Dr.
Stilfonrein, "tends to produce the very corrosive hydrofluoric acid, which
will attack and eat its way through glass.

Dental gel delivered to surgery in acid resistant plastic containers is left
in the mouth for four minutes. Some of this highly concentrated NaF is
swallowed. Dr. S. Gibson, Research Physician, Glasgow Homeopathic Hospital,
states that fluoride reacts with hydrogen bonds in biological molecules to
form HF (hydrofluoric acid) bonds, with adverse physiological effects at
very low concentrations, well below 1 ppm. Dr. Stilfonein further notes that
cancers usually attributable to cigarette use (i.e., lung and mouth) were,
for all practical purposes, absent before fluoridation of water in Britain
in the early 1950s, then increased exponentially several years after
fluoridation was introduced.

[Try this little experiment. Go to your local water purification plant and
inquire how to purchase, oh, say, one ounce of pure NaF (sodium fluoride.)
Tell them you have a well and wish to treat your water for your children's
"oral wellness." When you get out of the federal slammer after being
indicted under various nuclear non-proliferation treaty acts for soliciting
the sale of nuclear "byproducts" and one of the most toxic neurological
poisons known to man, write us a letter and let us know how it went.
Editor.]

 

Any thoughts?

I found this essay really interesting. Especially the Illusion of matter, and the illusion of colour!

Any thoughts?

Here is an excerpt from the BBC website reporting on an incident where a young woman and a man were raped in Saudi Arabia. It needs to be read a couple of times really, to actually grasp whats happening.

The 19-year-old, who has not been named, was travelling in a car with a male friend last year, when the car was attacked by a gang of seven men who raped both of them.

She has become known as the "Qatif girl", a reference to the largely Shia town which she comes from.

Four of the men were convicted of kidnapping - but the court also sentenced the woman and her friend to receive 90 lashes each for the crime of "illegal mingling".

Last week the court increased the woman's sentence to 200 lashes and six months in prison.

It also banned her lawyer from the courtroom and took away his licence.

The justice ministry said in a statement that the sentence was justified because the woman was in a car with an unrelated man.

Maybe it's me, but I see something a touch wrong with this?

It's that time of year again. The time kids look forward to it, cos of the presents, the single adult males cos of the lasses in Santa suits and stockings, and the banks because they know parents everywhere will buy things they can't afford so their kids don't feel like crap when they go back to school and have to say they got an atari 2600 instead of a playstation 3! Oh yes, a time of joy indeed. But... lets look at it again, from a different perspective.

I remember last year, there was a teacher in the uk, fired from her job, for telling the kids there that Santa wasn't real. Fired! Dismissed. Livelihood gone. And what for? Telling the truth! These were not 5 year olds either. They were 9! So... in teaching the kids about the real world, rather than going along with the lies and deception peddled by these children's parents, this person was punished. The parents of the kids involved were obviously outraged that this teacher could have said such a thing to their vulnerable babies. And why shouldn't they be? They'd rather that their children discovered for themselves the silliness of the idea and then chastise themselves on their own gullibility, rather than have it pointed out to them that their parents have lied to them all their lives about what they perceive as the happiest time of their lives each year, while quietly laughing at them with other adults, cloaked in superiority. What happens when you find the only people you thought you could trust unequivocally... turn into tricksters and deceivers?

Interestingly.... it would appear what happens is, kids hit the bottle and hard drugs, and then start ravishing each other! Starrman's dazzling topic entitled "Having children", cites that, "As many as one in 20 children aged 10 and 11 admitted taking part in a heavy drinking session in the past four weeks", presumably some neglected to reveal their own involvement, so that makes for quite a startling statistic. Kids are far from stupid, and having just found out that the presents don't actually magically appear, they then have to think about where they DO come from. The thought process may well go something like this.. "1 : Dad / mum doesn't make enough money to be able to afford this cos they're always arguing about money. 2: Yet i do have this. 3 : they bought me something they can't afford, and are arguing still about money. 4 : Its my fault they are arguing." Kids look for reasons,  and being kids, often don't understand certain realities, so therefore attribute blame for things to themselves, and then carry the guilt. This effects self esteem, which in turn leads to alcohol and so on.

But wait, lets move back to the Santa mythos. I remember as a kid, my parents (who were, and one still is, religious nut jobs, and i do mean complete fruit bats!) lynched me for using the expression Xmas. They claimed that people who did that were "Taking The Christ out of Christmas", and that was after all what Christmas was intrinsically all about. What with all the symbolism i asked what i thought was a pertinent question. "Don't you think it's odd that Santa is an anagram of Satan?" I got in trouble for that! However, the Santa tradition had been maintained, right down to the leaving out of a couple of mince pies and a glass of sherry next to the chimney for Santa to enjoy after his delivery, for all the years i remember as a child. In fact if i close my eyes I can still see the old fireplace!

Curiously, it is illegal to eat mincepies in the uk as a certain Mr Cromwell banned them many moons ago. So, Santa, besides breaking and entering, is also committing an offence, (which in fairness is pretty much thrust upon him by the house owner), by eating the pies left for him in every house. Not just this, however, there is far worse to come. Consider the sherry. With a world population of 66,762,290,000 which, if we divide that by 4 to get the average number of households... = 16,690,572,500 glasses of sherry in one night, split over 24 hour and 39 time zones. Thats impressive amounts of drinking, even for a guy who grew up in a working mans town like Crewe! No wonder Santa is portrayed as fat! Yet this person, obese, binge drinking, law breaking, drunk driving as he is, is idolised by kids across the globe. An impressive role model indeed and one capable of creating quite an impression! Right up until a teacher, who should really be the role model, tells the kids he's just fictitious, and gets fired for it. Which sets up another good example of how the world works!

Of course, Santa's lack of abstemiousness will be dismissed as silliness, but i can't help but wonder if some of this does indeed permeate into the psyche of the next generation. The Christmas mythos itself has Jesus turning water into wine in copious amounts at a wedding. And i do mean copious! After all of the wine that was ready and prepared was drunk, which we have to assume will have been roughly estimated as enough to cover the guests, Jesus produces another 180 gallons! That might not mean much to some people, so i'll convert it into real money : 1440 pints, or 818 litres! On top of what was already drunk, which ostensibly has to be 2, 3, or more times more in quantity than the final top up the big J C lavishes on his guests. Again, another shining example for our children, and this one more often than not, is not cancelled out by a teacher doing their job, but in fact is propagated by them!

Do I have a solution? No! I merely wish to out this... this... perhaps unintentional, but nevertheless, Hideous subliminal we thrust upon the younger generation at this time of year.  What you do with this news is your own business. My work here is done!

Ho ho humbug!

Yawns n stretches

You know what never fails to get me down... what brings me to the ground and weighs heavy on my shoulders

Gravity!

Personally, and im not looking for agreement, i suspect that gravity is the root of all evil! That... and blue belly button fluff!

I have a theory on that... and it ties in with why there is only ever one of a pair of socks findable! Our feet are absorbing our socks....(the right foot more than the left i suspect) and then much like we do with food... excreting what it cant digest via the belly button! Somewhere within us is a Symbiont life form who's diet is sock! We are their host! And, as our normal excretions become the colours they do, so with the fluff of the belly variety, irrespective of the sock colour we wear!

"Wait!" I hear you cry, "What of the clothing you wear? What of the jeans, and the tops?" "Poppycock!", i reply to these deniers of the truth! I wore nothing but black, white, green, red and yellow for a week, and yet in that time period the manifestation of blue malevolence that i speak of happened not once, but twice, which obviously shows the purplesque pigmented protrudance is unrelated to my attire at the time of formation.

I offer you this information as the new year approaches so as to make you, the reader, aware. Playing with knowledge of the pack improves your chance of winning! It also helps if you have a full deck so i'm told, but i reply "It didn't help the Titanic passengers did it", which quells any more of that sort of talk. So... be warned, it ain't rainy days and Sundays.... its Symbiont's n gravity that always get you down. Cast them aside and you'll find the new year heralds joys the like of which i cannot begin to speak of here.

Until next time!

After all the serious talk of deconstruting belief systems, a little light refreshment!

I stumbled back across, on my old wandering about the ether, this site, which shows the differences between English and American English.

I've linked to the letter "S", simply because of this definition..

scotch n. Scotch is a contraction of the word "Scottish" but is now only used in the context of foodstuffs (and even then really just scotch eggs), and whisky - we refer to anything else as being "Scottish". So we aren't Scotch people; we are Scottish people. If we were Scotch people, we would be made primarily from whisky. Oh, wait…

There are doubtless others which will amuse, but this one struck a cord with me!

An end of an era! Seems that Tv-Links, the site that brought you, the viewer, all the programs you wanted to see, old and new, has been eaten by FACT, the Uk's version of the copyright police.

What this site did, in essence, is to provide links to programs which other people had uploaded, so that you could search the site, find the desired link, and then go to it. A directory, if you will, not dissimilar to any other directory, in that all it provided was directions (in this case in the form of a clickable hyperlink) to programs and films uploaded by others.

What bothers me is, that as far as I'm aware, the site itself did not hold any copyright material, nor did it upload any. What's happened, is tantamount to shooting the messenger, or to use a more interesting example, if a person intent on crashing his car to kill himself asks directions to the nearest motorway, the person who then gives the directions is subsequently arrested for aiding and abetting! (Thinking about it the car manufacturer would be hauled in too as an accessory!)

In my humble opinion, it should be the people who have uploaded the films and videos and breached the copyright laws who should be caught and punished (preferably after the viewer has seen the last episode of "House" mind you.. lol), not the guy who provided a site for links to be placed upon.

If the copyright plods really wanted to make a difference, they could've used a site like that to track people who DO upload illegal stuff (and poor quality illegal stuff especially!!).

As a curiosity, if you google Tv links.. there are thousands of hits provided, complete with links, all of which i would imagine used to work! So, as Google links to the site which links to the sites which hosts these programs..... somehow i don't see all the search engines MD's being hauled into Scotland Yard. However, the president it will set, if the person who owed the site does indeed wind up in jail or fined, could prove very interesting indeed. Most of us have pictures or writings up on the net, and most of us have used hyperlinks to stories and pages which include pictures etc, and I wouldn't mind betting none of us have checked the copyright of all of the content of all  of the pages we've visited, linked to, or indeed, told others to have a look at. This in turn means we could all be liable of something.

I read somewhere the idea that our governments are creating laws so that in the end we are all guilty of committing some kind of crime, and accordingly when they feel the time suits, they are ready to haul us in. I am wary of repeating this idea though, in case they copyrighted it, and I've not attributed a credit! lol