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A Warning Not To Rely On Your Phone

Ed Sheeran must feel a right chump this morning, after losing his phone at the Brits. This is from the BBC’s report of the show.

A double award-winner at last year’s Brits, Ed Sheeran suddenly went white with fear at this year’s show.

“I’ve lost my phone,” he said, panic building as he patted down the pockets on his suit.

“It’s not locked. It has the whole of my new record on it. And it has quite a few phone numbers that shouldn’t be released.

“That’s not good, is it?”

I suppose many will excuse him, as he is from Suffolk, a county that the locals often pair with silly. But generally, they are just using it as self-promotion.

February 21, 2013 Posted by | News | , , | Leave a comment

The Danger Of Religious Fraud

This story is running on BBC’s London News. This is the first part.

TV shows made in London that encourage viewers to believe they are cured of life-threatening illnesses by prayer have been condemned by charities.

Charities criticised an episode of the Miracle Hour show, on Faith World TV, during which a diabetic caller was told he was “set free” from the disease.

“It is particularly dangerous and puts his life at risk,” said African Health Policy Network head Francis Kaikumba.

It strikes me that when people like these make dangerous television programs like this, that the law should get involved.

At least they should be charged with fraud, as that is what it is!

February 21, 2013 Posted by | Health, News | , , , | 2 Comments

Sleepwalking Our Way To An Energy Crisis

The head of Ofgem, Alistair Buchanan, is warning that we’re running out of power capacity and that bill will rise.  It’s all in this article on the BBC.  This is the first few paragraphs.

Consumers are being warned they face higher energy bills as the UK becomes more reliant on energy imports.

In a speech, Ofgem chief executive Alistair Buchanan will say that falls in Britain’s power production capacity are likely to lead to more energy imports and customers paying more.

The energy watchdog predicts power station closures could mean a 10% fall in capacity by April alone.

So what have successive governments over the last ten or so years been doing?

Nothing really, except building useless wind farms.

We should have barraged the Severn, which done properly would create ten percent of our power.

A handful of nuclear power stations would have helped.

As would some gas extracted from fracking, which it seems now, will be the most promising cheap source of energy. Like it or not, we’ve going to have to get fracking!  Both the gas and the echnology is there! A few power cuts or higher energy bills, would turn the public’s mind!

We should of course, insulate our houses better. Wouldn’t that create a few jobs too?

My Buchanan has just appeared on the BBC.  He talked a lot of sense and we need to see more of him! But the politicians won’t like him, as he’ll make all of them unelectable.

I just sent this e-mail to the BBC.

The public is to blame, as they don’t want generating capacity like the Severn Barrage, wind farms, fracking or nuclear power stations and they continue to want to live in inefficient supposedly beautiful houses. When the bills quadruple and the lights go out, they’ll change their tune.

I suppose it will cure the immigration issue as no-one will want to come here to sit in the dark.

I doubt they’ll read it out.

February 19, 2013 Posted by | News | , , , , | 2 Comments

The Last Mass For Gay Catholics

I am not religious, but all of those who have religion that I respect, don’t really care about anybody’s race, sex or sexual orientation.

Therefore this story from the BBC’s web site, says to me that the Roman Catholic Church is still living in the Age, where they set the rules and others complied on pain of being excluded. I’m afraid in the modern world, we can all make up our own minds. Now if gay people want to go to a religious service it is up to them, not the church or religion concerned.

I hope one day, that I might be invited as a guest to a same-sex wedding in a Roman Catholic Church conducted by a woman priest!

February 17, 2013 Posted by | News | , | 2 Comments

Is David Cameron Satanic?

It has been reported that Anjem Choudary has called David Cameron satanic.

Quite frankly, David Cameron is one of the least satanic prime Ministers we’ve had.  I suppose though, he shares with John Major and Margaret Thatcher, no outspoken religious views, which must make him satanic to some.

Choudary was on BBC Radio 5 this morning and Phil Williams asked if he was on benefits. He refused to answer. Judging by the texts read out on the program,  Choudary doesn’t have much support.

Let’s hope it stays that way and we can file him and his movement in the same dustbin as those of the Far Right.

Surely though after another atrocity in Pakistan yesterday in the centuries-old feud between Sunni and Shia Muslims, Islam needs a few men of peace with vision. On the subject of the rivalry between the two parts of Islam, read this.

February 17, 2013 Posted by | News | , , , , | 2 Comments

Call For The Dulux

We may have had a couple of near misses with asteroids lately, but I like the call from Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnett of Oxford University to use a giant tin of Dulux to make the asteroid white and thus make sunlight deflect it from the collision course.

Who needs Bruce Willis?

 

February 16, 2013 Posted by | News | , | 2 Comments

How Not To Do Your Dirty Washing

Of all the terrible stories today in the news, the abuse that went on in Ireland in the Magdalene Laundry system is one of the worst. It’s here in the Guardian.

We rightly condemn the systematic abuse of women by such as the Taliban , but why was this system allowed to flourish within my lifetime in Ireland?

But then the Roman Catholic church is not very sympathetic to the things that are taken for grated in civilised countries like contraception, gay rights, divorce and necessary abortion.

I suppose it won’t get any better, as the new Pope will probably be another decrepit individual with thoughts rooted firmly in the Dark Ages.

February 16, 2013 Posted by | News | | 3 Comments

A Rum Deal

This article about the coat of arms for Deal is such a good example of how we all get involved in wasting money, because some self-serving organisation or quango, thinks it knows that’s best and doesn’t use common sense.

Obviously, the College of Arms doesn’t, as surely there’s only one Deal in the UK.

February 16, 2013 Posted by | News | , | Leave a comment

Everyday Units

They are talking on the BBC about an asteroid passing the earth tonight as being the size of an Olympic swimming pool. There’s more here.

Why are objects always Olympic swimming pools, London buses or football pitches?

Incidentally, an astronomer has said that this asteroid is possibly about the size of the one that landed in Tunguska in 1908. Although of course no-one can be sure.

February 15, 2013 Posted by | News, World | , , | Leave a comment

Bono Is 1000-1 To Be Next Pope

This surprising fact is given in this article in the Wall Street Journal.

At least, he knows more about life, than most of the Popes, I’ve seen toddling off into the sunset.

I doubt the next Pope will be a coeliac though, as the one who just has resigned, has I think banned them from the priesthood.

February 11, 2013 Posted by | News | | Leave a comment

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