The Plot Thickens and The Noose......

So Tony blair's chum Lord Levy has been arrested again. On the serious matter of perverting the course of justice (allegedly). Wow! Can it get more serious? Will Blair decide enough is enough?

His government now seems obsessed with trying to hide their misdeeds, either through emails going into thin air or by having inquiries. The trouble is the inquiries are all about the people who don't seem to have botched things up.

Blair is fast becoming a liability for the whole country.

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In the mind of Tony Blair!

Surrounded by secret e-mail equipment, no doubt concealing the rougher side of political life, Tony Blair announces that Catholic adoption agencies will get "21 months to prepare for change", and this is a "sensible compromise". 21 months to do what exactly? Close down? or turn the Church's social teaching on its head?

He says "there can be no exemptions for faith-based adoption agencies offering public funded services from regulations that prevent discrimination." So? If they don't accept public funds, can they carry on as normal? Can pigs fly? The answer is no on both counts. Because the "public money" canard was irrelevant to start with.

I hope he has some kind secular social workers lined up or some whose beliefs have been tempered to suit the World's workings, to take over from the societies that have been pilloried. Yes, the children come first. When was it a case that they didn't?

Tony Blair is quite capable of making the word perversion mean what it literally means. Turned through. A good definition of the word (other than that which is most often used) is - "diversion from the true meaning or proper purpose". Now that's what's happened here!

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Rumsfeld's Polished Performances!

Donald Rumsfeld may be gone. But he's not forgotten. This little piece shows he's probably not such a bad guy, but his tricks need a helping hand it seems!

http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-6685716939913040216

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Baby Scandal

Here's a bit of news, hot on the tail of the Catholic adoption row. This New Labour government is obsessed with targets. To hell with people's feelings or consciences. They don't matter. Now we have the lid lifted on a social services scandal.

Apparently babies are being removed from their parents so that councils can meet adoption targets. Sounds like China or the late Ceacescu's Romania, doesn't it? LibDem MP, John Hemming says "A thousand kids a year are being taken off their birth parents just to satisfy targets. It is a national scandal. He said children were increasingly placed under "care orders" - where they remain with their birth parents but are kept under supervision by social workers - rather than with foster parents. And this supervision meant some social workers were "gradually taking them away from the parents, step by step, and giving them to someone else."

The mantra of the last few days has been "we must all care for the children". Well, the Catholic Church has been vilified as hyprocritical homophobes by these target-obsessed libertines, but in actual fact they don't care so long as their blessed system of control is not interfered with.

Wow!

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Competing rights

The Church of England has weighed into the debate on homosexual rights, by supporting the Roman Catholics' stance (in the main!).

The great problem it seems to me is that this is where we are with New Labour's ill-considered lawmaking. They have allowed the zealots out of the closet - literally! What we now have is the Church against a phalanx of securalists, libertines, free-expressionists, atheists, and, quite frankly, illiberal liberals!

All that it will do is encourage the fringe elements who will, on the one hand, use their version of Christian thinking to insult and speak ill of homosexuals, and, on the other hand, for those with a "thing" against the Church to shout insults back. What good is that?

I saw both Angela Eagle and Dr Evan Harris, MPs of the "Church is in the past" persuasion, speak on television and basically traduce the comments of the Archbishop of Westminster. Eagle implied the Church was hateful of gays and Harris suggested that the Church discriminated against homosexuals and could not be above the law.

They don't ever want to repeat what has been said oft before. That the Church does not hate or abuse those of a homosexual inclination. None of us knows, or frankly cares, what another member of a particular congregation gets up to. That is not the point. However, it has always been the case that the doctrine of the Church is that the two estates of being are either celibacy or matrimony. The Barrabas tendency thinks this all old hat! OK, not all Christians live up to the ideal, to the positive elements of this teaching. But that is no reason for changing it. Christians believe in Revealed Truth. If the World sees it differently, then there is bound to be a clash of principles.

There seems to be a new persecution of the Church evolving. The synogue of the Libertines has re-awakened, like the Phoenix. They are shouting - hypocrites, the Church is backward, priests are this that and the other! Can they hear themselves with their own hatred? How sad!

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Pompous Little Man!

Lord Falconer says "The view about discrimination is one that's been taken by the country as a whole." Excuse me! When did a government elected on only 20% of the total electorate's active support speak for the Nation with any degree of certainty. On the issue he has in mind, the cabinet itself appears to have doubts in certain quarters. The Country has taken no decision at all!

Does one man's discrimination make another man's lawful? Lord Falconer seems to be the pompous mouthpiece for the zealotry of New Labour! The sooner they go the better.

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“He should be packing his bags if there are charges inside Number 10.”

Unrest on the Labour backbenches. Unrest in the country. Unrest in No.11 Downing Street. The Big Question is - is he going?

Seems not much will shift Mr. Blair. A rhinoceros would feel the pinch first! Ouch!

The police have, so it is reported, "hacked" into the computers surrounding the PM, because they felt they were being duped. Not the only ones. We've been duped for 10 years!

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Gay Times

The New Labour regime is making sure that their views are not only respected but OBEYED! Ruth Kelly is apparently fighting in Cabinet for the Catholic Church's right to place children with families, and not with other types of living arrangements. Today, government ministers have been talking about "homophobia" and almost denouncing the Church as bigots. It seems they are adopting a form of "Christophobia" - I made that one up, just like they do! Hatred of people is not a Christian act, but the Church's doctrine on celibacy and matrimony is well known. The fact that New Labour publicly rubbishes the Church, albeit in spin-like subtlety, shows what respect they have for views other than their own!

I would have thought tolerance was about excepting people but not necessarily agreeing with them. Why is it deemed right for a gay couple to force their opinions on the Church? Is it OK to go into a halal butcher and order pork chops? When is all this nonsense going to stop! A gay couple could easily adopt from a gay agency? We are being made to think that half the country is gay. If a b&b landlord has to accept a gay couple, are they "consenting adults in private" or are they breaking the Sexual Offences Act by making it more public. The trouble with New Labour is that they are mainly humourless zealots underneath with no inkling as to what their lawmaking can do.

I expect quite a few test cases in the future!

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Eggsactly!

Tongue in cheek, I've been conducting a poll on cooking eggs. The Food Standards Agency put up a spokesperson recently to say that fried eggs should resemble a vulcanised rubber object, that is cooked vigorously until all semblance of softness was removed. I'm glad to say nobody welcomes such a frightful delicacy.

Fried - Sunny Side Up (15) (36.6%)
Fried - Easy Over
(8)
(19.5%)
Scrambled (6)(14.6%)
Omelette (4)(9.8%)
Poached (3)
(7.3%)
Baked (2)(4.9%)
Lightly boiled (2)(4.9%)
Hard boiled
(1)(2.4%)
Fried for an hour! Diddly-Squat!!!! (0%)

The FSA recommends that eggs should "be cooked thoroughly" so implying here,and stating in interviews, that soft-boiled eggs and fried eggs with soft yolks are not safe. They cannot guarantee that an egg will be salmonella free. But the real culprit is not the hen and the egg but the filthy conditions of some kitchens that we have to endure in this country. Gordon Ramsay knows that all too well with his KitchenNightmares series. What a "f****** good" programme that is, Gordon! Perhapsthe FSA could sort out the people in the kitchens rather than the eggs? Then we might get some action. Eggsactly as it should be!

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Home Office could be split in two!

Dr. Reid is taking a swipe at the Home Office? Splitting it into two? What good would that do? If the culture isn't fixed, the spinning and deception not stopped, and the constant lawmaking of new useless laws not ceased, how is it going to benefit the people of the UK?

A Justice Department and a Security Department is envisaged. Well, New Labour are not very well disposed to being involved in the justice system, are they? Spinning against the police today. I thought that perverting the course of justice was a serious crime. Now I know nobody has been charged, but is this how the new Justice Departmnt is going to behave towards police activity?

And what of a Security Department? Heaven help us! One run by the dodgy dossier compilers? No thank you. If they can't work properly now, without a sea change in their thinking, none of this makes any sense.

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Another arrest!

Yet another New Labour stooge is arrested. This time it is Downing Street political adviser Ruth Turner. She's an archetypal spin merchant, apparently stuck in one of her own webs. This sorry affair keeps rumbling on. When is the Vacuous Airhead going? If he hangs on any longer then the smiling face that Gordon Brown has acquired will be wiped clean of any soft features!

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In the midst of life

Accidents can happen at any time to us. We live in a fragile world. I'm sitting here worrying about my garden fence in these high winds. It's all been put into persective. What's a fence in all reality? I can put it back up when the winds die down.

On the news I heard that a man had died in the storms. I thought nothing much of it. But it was someone known in the Birmingham area, as the man was Richard Heard, Managing Director of Birmingham Airport.

The airport's press release says all, especially about leadership with a human touch. I did not know him other than for his position at the airport. But it brought home to me that most worries are not important, life is all too short, and people do make a difference and are remembered.

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What! No English Parliament?

The man who is our Prime Minister - he of the dodgy dossiers, dodgy peerages, dodgy elections, dodgy wars, dodgy hospitals, etc, etc - is saying that an English Parliament is "unworkable" and "unnecessary". Well, it takes a dodgy person to make dodgy constitutional arrangements.

What other country in the world would accept his nonsense if perpetrated on them. What if California had no state congress, or that Bavaria was the only part of Germany with devolved government. This is the blatant fiddling with the democratic system that Blair is so good at.

Why can Scotland have a Parliament and not England? Is the man so corrupt in his thinking that he thinks this is remotely OK? Apparently so!

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Oil for Euros?

I've long since believed that this Iraq War is not about democracy. After all, a hanging chad fixer and his ballot rigging brother are no proper advocates of democratic values. No this is about oil. What? Do people say, oh yes? Heard all that before!

I've been looking at the BBC website's "Have your say" section. This little piece got my attention.

Condsleeza Rice is a despicable human being along with Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and the rest of the Neocons.There plan is going forward....that is to next attack Iran with the aid of Israel and FOR Israel. The troop buildup has nothing to do with Iraq and everything to do with Iran. I don't know if anyone follows this but Iran said they would only be useing Euros for oil transactions, very similar to what Saddam was going to do back in 2000. Of course, if that would happen and the EURO becomes the petrocurrency it would be tantamount to dropping 10 nuclear bombs on the USA. The US dollar is no longer based on gold and hasn't been for quite some time. The US is 10 Trillion in debt.

Dirk, Amsterdam

Dirk puts the case quite well (if a bit trenchantly). If I was running a country 10 Trillion in debt, I'd be keen to see it was financed by the other suckers in the world. On that score,George, you're peerless!

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Waging War

I don't know what makes some people tick. Geoff Hoon, the Foreign Office minister supposedly with an idea of what is going on in foreign lands, says that the war in Afghanistan is "going to plan". He has an air about him of a devious liar. Politics of the Machievelli type suit him. He thought WMD in Iraq existed. Then when every sane person knew they didn't, he tried to suggest that every sane person believed what he believed. It's all a lot of rubbish.

What the average soldier thinks of him I cannot begin to let my mind loose on!

On the other side of the ocean, George Bush talks tough about sending 20,000 more troops. An assinine ex-military type advisor comes on TV to beguile the people into thinking this will "win the war". Oh boy! Where on earth did he learn to think like this? If Bush is going to "win the war" bombing the **** out of Iraq certainly isn't going to make the Arab world say "George, fancy coming to dinner tonight?".

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New Year and New Problems

Not even a week into the New year and things start over as before. The army is being stuffed - big time. A hapless minister, one Derek Twigg, comes on TV and admits it's not good. But if that soldier hadn't emailed his mother, would Twigg have twigged that the country would be alarmed at the filthy conditions the forces are supposed to live in? No! He was hoping nothing would happen. Only months ago this devious crowd was suggesting the new Chief of the Defence Staff was a loose cannon. Trouble is the cannon balls the government are using are crap and so is the sytem of maintaining the army. Twigg mumbles on about spending money, but I get the impression it's very much the usual mix of paying to patch things up. No proper project management.

Blair talks about renewal of the nuclear deterrent, but what good is a bloody big bomb if the Army is driving clapped out vehicles, living in housing that even the Soviet Union would have despised, and picking up rifles that fire inaccurately or not at all. John Reid, in an attempt to look like a potential leader, waffles on about New Labour to a bunch of easily pleased activists but he conveniently leaves out the travails of the Army.

Blair's going this year (we all think?) and I hope he takes this lot of weasel wordsmiths with him.

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Romanian Romantics?

On January 1st, the European Union welcomed two new members, Bulgaria and Romania. Much is being said in the chattering circles about the possibility of people from these Balkan lands coming over to the UK and "taking jobs". I think that they might but in the muddled thinking of the EU bureaucracy, some citizens of the union are more equal than others. Romania is still on a sort of probation. For some time now, I've thought that the Brussels machine was akin to Animal Farm and its characters. Which animal is which is something of a nightmare scenario!

However, a more significant point is that it now is 60 years since the Romanians had a king. That king is still with us. King Michael I, descendant of Queen Victoria and 3rd cousin to the present Queen, is waiting for the possibility that his countymen and women may one day see the benefits of constitutional monarchy.

You know what? It did OK for Spain! I would concur with Romanian monarchists that their country would fare well under such a system and that this man would bring dignity to a country ravaged by communist clowns and the husband and wife team that was Nicolae and Elena Ceauşescu.

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Under the knife

News reaches these shores that Ugandan men are rushing to the nearest doctor to get circumcised. What for? Because they have been told it cuts down (excuse the pun!) on the liklihood of contracting HIV/Aids. This is all based on fairly flimsy evidence. The only real way to stop getting such infection is abstinance or fidelity. Those that are considering such drastic action should contemplate whether their subsequent behaviour will change. If not, then the operation seems pointless.

I saw a marvellous programme on television about a dog, a dolphin and an elephant each having a pregnancy. The remarkable progress in the womb is based on the evolutionary needs of each mammal. Surely the same could be said of the human male. If each, in every corner of the world, is born with a foreskin, is there not a reason for this? If we are more in tune with creationism then it is God's handiwork, if we are more towards evolution, then it is still the work of God or of Nature.

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