Did You Know That If You Get Angry Your Buttocks Catch Fire?
Well according to that distributor of the truth, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, they do. He is quoted in this piece in the Guardian.
The president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, urged Americans to “pour water where it burns”, a reference to a phrase about people who are so angry that their buttocks catch fire.
So there you have it! It must be true, as it’s in a reputable newspaper.
More Iranian Injustice
Iran must be the most inhuman regime in the world and goodness knows there are quite a few about. They are now going to lash poor Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani because a picture of her appeared in The Times without a headscarf. But according to the BBC, the picture wasn’t even her.
How long should we go on having diplomatic relations with people like this?
Who’d Have Thought of it in Bury St. Edmunds?
Bury St. Edmunds is not thought of a town for anything risque! It did once have an eBench in the Abbey Gardens, but who’d have thought a wine bar would mix sausages and burlesque in the town?
But they have according to the local daily paper, the East Anglian Daily Times.
Why the Fuss About the Coles’ Divorce?
You want to try losing your wife after being together for forty years!
You have a choice about getting divorced, but being widowed is rarely you or your partner’s fault!
I really do object to the amount of time spent on the break-up of the marriage between two complete non-entities! Especially on Radio 5, this morning!
Another Gulf Oil Rig Blows Up
This time it does not appear to have been as large or tragic, than the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon, but it did blow thirteen workers into the water.
There doesn’t appear to be any leaks as yet and the risk should be lower, as the well is in shallower water and supposely wasn’t producing any oil or gas.
But it does illustrate the problems of offshore drilling.
I had that Black Stig in My Kitchen!
The original Black Stig, Perry McCarthy, once came to see me about a business venture, I was involved with. He was a likeable guy, talked a lot of sense and I regret slightly that we didn’t meet again. I wish him well in whatever he is doing now.
I can still see him standing in my kitchen by the fridge and every time I get milk out with someone else standing in the same place, I have a little smile.
Blair on Fox Hunting
This is in the Guardian’s report on Tony Blair’s new book.
He regrets the hunting sort-of ban, incidentally. He hadn’t understood how important it was to many people. Careless Tony; he should have known. But banning hunting is a class issue of great totemic importance for parts of the Labour tribe and he went along with it. Typical Tony in his early years: inexperienced, ill-read and eager to please.
In other words he didn’t let the truth get in the wayof his gut feelings. How many other decisions he took would have been different, if he’d properly researched the subject and also listened to those with alternative views?
An Alternative to Toll Roads
A report today, says that toll roads are not the answer to Britain’s crowded roads.
But is an alternative here already?
The A14 is one of the UK’s most crowded roads. A lot of the traffic is trucks carrying containers to and from the docks in the Haven Ports (Felixstowe, Harwich and Ipswich).
Over the next two years, Network Rail are upgrading the railway from Felixstowe to the East and West Coast Main Lines, so that large amounts of this traffic can go by rail. Network Rail are also upgrading the rail network to Southampton and other places to put the heavy freight where it belongs and the traffic figures are now showing that rail is carrying more freight traffic of this type than a few years ago.
The problem is that rail needs depots to transfer the containers for the final collection or delivery and planning permission for these is often difficult to get, due to local opposition from those same people, who will benefit from less freight traffic on the roads.
We may not have space in this country for a new motorway, but there is often space to fit in another rail track or two alongside an existing line.
How To Make Money As A Zombie
Apparently, some people arrested because they were dressed as zombies have received substatial compensation in Minneapolis.
What a simple way to earn money by being silly!
Does Government Policy on Terrorism Fuel Mistrust?
The BBC is reporting this morning that DEMOS, a respected and influencial think-tank has said that goverment policy on terrorism is actually fuelling mistrust of the authorites. The BBC says this.
Secrecy surrounding counter-terrorism operations is fuelling mistrust of authorities, a study by independent think tank Demos suggests.
It urges the government and secret services to be more open to stop extremist groups using conspiracy theories to discredit them.
A Demos spokesman said: “Less-secret services could make Britain safer.”
The study calls for greater communication with trusted community leaders and individuals.
The report – entitled the Power of Unreason – says groups use conspiracy theories to recruit and radicalise people to commit acts of violence.
An example of one such theory is that the bombings in New York and London, on 11 September 2001 and 7 July 2005 respectively, were “inside jobs” carried out by authorities in the US and UK.Other theories highlighted were that “freemasons control the world economy through manipulation of paper currency”, that the UK government is “consciously seeking to destroy Islam” and that a “conspiracy between the Japanese government, the US, and the Jews existed to gain world domination”.
The study claims such theories are frequently adopted by extremist groups to demonise outsiders, discredit moderates and push them in a more extreme and sometimes violent direction.
As an example, over the last few years we’ve all heard many conspiracy theories about 9/11 from people who believed it was a plot by the US and ISrael against Islam.
But then use of these types of theories are nothing new. You only have to read histories of the Nazis to realise the untruths they pedalled against Jews, homsectuals and anybody else they thought inferior.
We should be more open as DEMOS says and fight these theories with the only weapon we have! The truth!
One of the links on the BBC report is to this page on their web site about a conspiuracy theory about the London bombings. What a load of old twaddle, this guy is saying. The trouble is it’s dangerous old twaddle and the BBC was absolutely right in exposing the twat behind it.
The Anonymous Widower 