While it might well not be the done thing in Malaysia to get your kit off on a mountain top but do the good people of Malaysia really believe that doing so causes earthquakes?
Wednesday, 17 June 2015
God and the Medical Profession
A teenage cancer sufferer is told by doctors at a Nottingham hospital that her cancer is in remission. Feeling ill she looks up her symptoms on the Internet, on an American government endorsed web site no less, but instead of having her fears and concerns taken seriously she is told to 'stop Googling your symptoms', and sent home to die.
I'm sure the girl's parents will be much comforted to know that, in the words of the Trust's Medical Director, Stephen Fowlie, 'the Trust's communication with the family fell short'.
At least David Cameron only thinks he's God, the doctors of the Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust know they are.
I'm sure the girl's parents will be much comforted to know that, in the words of the Trust's Medical Director, Stephen Fowlie, 'the Trust's communication with the family fell short'.
At least David Cameron only thinks he's God, the doctors of the Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust know they are.
IS Brides
I'm afraid I can't join in the collective hang-wringing over the three teenage girls, and now the three adult sisters and their brood who have, it would seem, gone to Syria to join the murderous cult that is Islamic State.
The 'devastated' husbands appear on television and the newspapers call it a tragedy and call for the police, the Home Office, the EU and uncle Tom Cobley to 'do something'! Well no it isn't a tragedy and it's of no-one's concern except for those involved!
If grown women want to live in a rat's nest like Syria, and if teenage girls want to be passed around a group of Kalashnikov-totting murderers like so many cigarettes then let them, it's quite simply not our concern. They are all old enough to make up their own minds and go to hell in their own way of choosing.
But of course it's always someone else's fault!
It's never the parents or other family members who allow this so-called radicalisation to occur; never the Mosques and religious teachers who for so long have perpetrated the idea that Muslims are somehow above British society, who have for years resisted all attempts at integration but instead have fostered the ghetto mentality, aided and abetted it must be said by the political elite and it's liberal mantra of multi-culterism, where any criticism of Muslims and their alien ways are condemned as racist.
So the chickens are now coming home to roost and the Muslim community have no-one to blame but themselves.
The 'devastated' husbands appear on television and the newspapers call it a tragedy and call for the police, the Home Office, the EU and uncle Tom Cobley to 'do something'! Well no it isn't a tragedy and it's of no-one's concern except for those involved!
If grown women want to live in a rat's nest like Syria, and if teenage girls want to be passed around a group of Kalashnikov-totting murderers like so many cigarettes then let them, it's quite simply not our concern. They are all old enough to make up their own minds and go to hell in their own way of choosing.
But of course it's always someone else's fault!
It's never the parents or other family members who allow this so-called radicalisation to occur; never the Mosques and religious teachers who for so long have perpetrated the idea that Muslims are somehow above British society, who have for years resisted all attempts at integration but instead have fostered the ghetto mentality, aided and abetted it must be said by the political elite and it's liberal mantra of multi-culterism, where any criticism of Muslims and their alien ways are condemned as racist.
So the chickens are now coming home to roost and the Muslim community have no-one to blame but themselves.
The Immigrant Crisis
The flood of migrants from North Africa is now clearly out of control. Over 102,000 have crossed from North Africa to Europe this year alone, with an estimated half a million last year, all making for what they see as the flesh pots of Germany and the UK.
Significantly, few seem to want to stop in the economic basket-cases of Greece, Spain and Italy, and all France does is shuffle them on to Calais in the hope that they will manage to smuggle themselves across the channel.
It simply cannot go on, but what does hug-a-hoodie, call-me-Dave and he wants to be quite clear about this Cameron do? He sends in the Royal Navy to scoop them out of the sea and transport them safely to Italy! He acts like Thomas Cooks, it's a wonder he doesn't put up ads in the Libyan ports -'want to get to Europe, ask the Royal Navy, they'll see you safely there'.
You couldn't make it up.
Why oh why aren't we, the Italians, and everyone else involved in this so-called 'rescue mission' both barring their crossing of the Mediterranean and transporting those it does catch straight back to Africa?
These people aren't 'refugees' fleeing some mythical persecution, they simply don't want to live in a cess-pit like Syria, Ethiopia, the Sudan or Eritrea when they can get £75.52 a week, and an extra £53 a week for each child, with free housing thrown in, all courtesy of mine and yours income tax, and thank you call-me-Dave.
Remember him? He's the guy who was going to cut immigration to 10,000 a year and instead presided over half a million immigrants during the course of the last Parliament, and he's still at it!
How he managed to con the electorate into giving him another five years to continue his wreaking spree is beyond my comprehension.
Significantly, few seem to want to stop in the economic basket-cases of Greece, Spain and Italy, and all France does is shuffle them on to Calais in the hope that they will manage to smuggle themselves across the channel.
It simply cannot go on, but what does hug-a-hoodie, call-me-Dave and he wants to be quite clear about this Cameron do? He sends in the Royal Navy to scoop them out of the sea and transport them safely to Italy! He acts like Thomas Cooks, it's a wonder he doesn't put up ads in the Libyan ports -'want to get to Europe, ask the Royal Navy, they'll see you safely there'.
You couldn't make it up.
Why oh why aren't we, the Italians, and everyone else involved in this so-called 'rescue mission' both barring their crossing of the Mediterranean and transporting those it does catch straight back to Africa?
These people aren't 'refugees' fleeing some mythical persecution, they simply don't want to live in a cess-pit like Syria, Ethiopia, the Sudan or Eritrea when they can get £75.52 a week, and an extra £53 a week for each child, with free housing thrown in, all courtesy of mine and yours income tax, and thank you call-me-Dave.
Remember him? He's the guy who was going to cut immigration to 10,000 a year and instead presided over half a million immigrants during the course of the last Parliament, and he's still at it!
How he managed to con the electorate into giving him another five years to continue his wreaking spree is beyond my comprehension.
Tuesday, 20 January 2015
Impartiality
I don't share the righteous indignation of the Daily Mail et all regarding the Family Court Magistrate who, it is reported, has been sent for 'equality training' after supposedly making adverse comments regarding same-sex parents adopting a child while adjudicating on that adoption.
Nor do I accept that this is an attack on freedom of speech or Christian values, as some Christian groups, including Michael Nazir-Ali, former Bishop of Rochester have claimed, it is simply discriminatory prejudice and as such has no place on the bench. Whatever your personal feelings and beliefs if you can't leave them at home then you have no business being in a courtroom.
What you can't do, as the former Bishop says you once could (you couldn't - ever) is to allow the teaching of the Book of Common Prayer to be taken into account in reaching a legal decision.
Incidentally, to those fixated on the mistaken idea that this is some form of attack on the Christian faith, nor can the Koran or the Bhagavad Gita form part of the reaching of a judicial decision, it's the law, just the law and only the law that counts.
I've been a Magistrate for over 24 years, including 10 years as a Family Court chairman, and over that time I've been faced with many laws; rules; guidance etc which I personally do not agree with but my job is not to make, bend or twist the law, it is to enforce it whether I like it or not, and that includes the Equality Act which this particular Magistrate seems to have problems with.
On the, thankfully, few occasions when I've been faced with a situation in court that I felt unable to deal with on the evidence alone, without any personal motivation, then I've announced the same in open court and recused myself, despite that causing in one case the collapse of a trial, with all the attendant difficulties for both court staff and those in appearing before the court. It is the only right and proper course of action, and the Lord Chancellor and the Lord Chief Justice are quite right in saying that this Magistrate should have done just that.
The Judicial Oath is worth repeating, I'll use the old form as that's what I took:
To do right by all manner of folk, without fear or favour, affection or ill-will.
Nor do I accept that this is an attack on freedom of speech or Christian values, as some Christian groups, including Michael Nazir-Ali, former Bishop of Rochester have claimed, it is simply discriminatory prejudice and as such has no place on the bench. Whatever your personal feelings and beliefs if you can't leave them at home then you have no business being in a courtroom.
What you can't do, as the former Bishop says you once could (you couldn't - ever) is to allow the teaching of the Book of Common Prayer to be taken into account in reaching a legal decision.
Incidentally, to those fixated on the mistaken idea that this is some form of attack on the Christian faith, nor can the Koran or the Bhagavad Gita form part of the reaching of a judicial decision, it's the law, just the law and only the law that counts.
I've been a Magistrate for over 24 years, including 10 years as a Family Court chairman, and over that time I've been faced with many laws; rules; guidance etc which I personally do not agree with but my job is not to make, bend or twist the law, it is to enforce it whether I like it or not, and that includes the Equality Act which this particular Magistrate seems to have problems with.
On the, thankfully, few occasions when I've been faced with a situation in court that I felt unable to deal with on the evidence alone, without any personal motivation, then I've announced the same in open court and recused myself, despite that causing in one case the collapse of a trial, with all the attendant difficulties for both court staff and those in appearing before the court. It is the only right and proper course of action, and the Lord Chancellor and the Lord Chief Justice are quite right in saying that this Magistrate should have done just that.
The Judicial Oath is worth repeating, I'll use the old form as that's what I took:
To do right by all manner of folk, without fear or favour, affection or ill-will.
Monday, 19 January 2015
Party Invites, at you peril
I don't know whether to laugh or cry at the story currently bouncing around the Internet about a mother who sent an invoice for a claimed 'no show' fee when an invited child failed to attend her five year old's birthday party.
Whatever the rights and wrongs of this farrago are one thing is certain, when the child reaches six he's likely to have very few attending that party, something that in her righteous indignation the mother seems to have overlooked. As for persuing a claim in the small claims court - who is she going to sue, the five year old?
Give me strength.
Whatever the rights and wrongs of this farrago are one thing is certain, when the child reaches six he's likely to have very few attending that party, something that in her righteous indignation the mother seems to have overlooked. As for persuing a claim in the small claims court - who is she going to sue, the five year old?
Give me strength.
Friday, 9 January 2015
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