Author: bravo22c

…for ignoring the tenets of organised superstition when it comes to the Law.  This Judge, has explicitly enshrined the principle of one law for all in his decision:

Lord Justice Laws ruled that while everyone had the right to hold religious beliefs, those beliefs themselves had no standing under the law.

“In the eye of everyone save the believer, religious faith is necessarily subjective, being incommunicable by any kind of proof or evidence,” he told the court.

While acknowledging the profound influence of Judeo-Christian traditions over many centuries, he insisted that no religious belief itself could be protected under the law “however long its tradition, however rich its culture”.

“The promulgation of law for the protection of a position held purely on religious grounds cannot therefore be justified,” he said.

“It is irrational, as preferring the subjective over the objective. But it is also divisive, capricious and arbitrary.”

So, can we now expect that all NHS ward staff will have to adhere to hygiene regulations, that all UK residents will have to abide by the laws about concealing their faces in public places – just as all must abide by the laws about, say, smoking in public places – and that all UK schoolchildren will have to abide by the rules about school uniform, with no legal discrimination against young female pupils?

I’m not holding my breath.

In spite of the whitewash over the leaks from the Climate Research Unit of East Anglia University, which concentrated on the leaked emails and resolutely ignored the real story – the flawed programmes which manipulated the raw data into showing warming whatever was happening in the real World, the convenient ‘loss’ of the world-wide raw data upon which the over-hyped warming predictions were made, and the total discrediting of the IPCC and its corrupt leader Rajendra Pachauri – the actual science is actually beginning to influence politicians as the Australian and US Governments abandon their ridiculous Emissions Trading schemes. bad science

The story goes that this statue of Peter the Great was originally going to be Christopher Columbus – a present to the US from Russia.  The Americans, however, took one look at it and said, ‘No, thanks, bub,’ and who can blame them?

Someone asked what the buildings I have been photographing might have looked like in Soviet times, so I found a few

All these are unedited.  If anyone knows of a good (free) photo editing suite, I’d be grateful – fuji seem to save images in a proprietary format?

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Well, I wasn’t actually on holiday, of course, but I was in Turkey, in the sun, at a very nice resort. Sometimes my line of work does have its compensations.

After a frantic few days of planning for different disaster scenarios because of the disruption to air travel, everybody got away from Moscow on the Monday with little fuss. The boys and girls from St Petersburg couldn’t travel and the only downside of the week was that they didn’t make it to the conference – no matter what we tried, something screwed it up. Still, given all the confusion last week, only 123 people out of 1500+ were affected, so, all in all, it wasn’t too bad. impressions of Turkey

A blogger claims to ask ‘profound,’ questions. A blogger whose profundity of insight is expressed by shouting the admission that ‘I KNOW YOU DIDN”T SAY THAT,’ and then going on to argue as if it has been said. A blogger who makes sly accusations – like falsifying reference material – and then, when shown to be wrong, wriggles and twists through so many contortions of argument trying to show that what was wrong, was, in fact, right that many wonder that he doesn’t disappear up his own, erm, South-facing orifice. What?

Never mind the funny walks, I’ll salute these guys.

Which guys? These: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/concoughlin/100034434/we-must-not-underestimate-pakistans-contribution-to-defeating-the-taliban/

… and a couple of good quality stainless steel shovels, a few lengths of pipe, a large metal tank, a smaller pressure tank, oh yes, and a .22 rifle to take care of any foxes that come after your chickens. Why?

Yes, I know that was a pretty daft thing to do, but, like, I din’t do it on purpose, did I? Read all about it here

Muslim doctors and nurses are to be allowed to opt out of strict hygiene rules introduced by the NHS to restrict the spread of hospital superbugs.

Now, this really is outrageous pandering to one form of organised superstition over another.