Isn’t it just….

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.
Arthur Balfour

Goodnight everyone, sleep well.

Whacko of the Year

I fail to see how this whacko could be surpassed this year:

A soldier who lost a leg fighting the Taliban was told he didn’t qualify for a disabled parking badge because he might “get better”.

The 27-year old, whose heart stopped twice when he injured in Afghanistan, has now had more than £800 in parking fines for leaving his car in disabled bays.

I give you, the whacko of the year, Nottinghamshire County Council Service Director, Mr Paul McKay, who said ‘We will urgently assess whether Mr Lee meets the eligibility criteria for a disabled parking badge as laid down by the Department of Transport. We will progress this matter as quickly as possible.’

He’s lost a freakin’ leg you bureaucratic moron.

Story here.

A most unusual and disturbing pesentation

I have hesitated for a few days before posting this because it uses brainwashing techniques to address an inflammatory subject. See how you react to it.

JLS4

Neil Diamond

Some Question to Ask

I found the attached diagram with an article in Le Figaro. The diagram helps one to understand the situation of the trapped miners a little better. It shows that this is a walk-in mine, not one with a shaft and winder. There are two roof falls in the access tunnel, one of which has also blocked a ventilation shaft that might otherwise have been used as an escape route. Questions remain though. I still do not understand why they are drilling from the surface, rather than clearing a way through the blockages. The article says that the tunnel was weakened by recent earthquakes, so that might explain the reluctance to go in that way, but why were the men working down there if the tunnel was weakened. Are we to understand that it was not inspected after earthquakes in the region? Also, why is there no escape shaft already in place? The mine owners have some explaining to do, in my view

Blair’s philosophy?

I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth.
Stanley Baldwin

Goodnight everyone, sleep well.

Seven steps to heaven (Toast and marmalade)

As some may know I am an advocate of Sainsbury’s ‘Three Fruit’ marmalade, a combination of grapefruit, oranges and lemons. I actually prefer this to their Seville range of marmalade as the mixed fruit variety has more of a kick. Anyway, I tried it out on PapaGuinea Junior yesterday morning. Perhaps it takes years to acquire the taste of bitter marmalade and this trial no doubt was a stepping stone. Whether or not he realised this is seventh heaven is another thing but by the expression on his face at Step 7, I would say he was unsure.