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Cost of Christmas

grumbler — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:21:55 +0000

“Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want – and their kids pay for it.” Richard Lamm

I guess it is only fair that we get our kids what they want for Christmas, after all, they will be paying for us heavily in the long run!

Ideologies

grumbler — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:27:29 +0000

People seem surprised by the fact that Hitler was a vegetarian and a teetotaler. I am not saying that I agree with Hitler’s philosophies or ideologies, far from it. However, I feel that showing surprise that Hitler had principals is being rather ignorant of the historical facts. The truth is that Hitler wanted perfection, what he called an Arien Race. A race of perfect people. The fact that he defined who was perfect and who wasn’t (especially considering the fact that he himself did not fit his description of his ideal being) was a tad loopy, especially as he went by hair colour, religion and who your grandparents were despite perhaps their death before your birth. I guess the point is that he actually saw the people who were not “perfect” to be of less value than animals.

Mind you perhaps his ideas were not completely bad, because sometimes I think people who can torture kids, rape them and kill them deserve a slower more painful death than gas chambers! But then again, that would not fall within his theories…. just my own!!

Merry Christmas

grumbler — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 05:01:32 +0000

Despite politicians thinking that Christmas should be removed from schools and nativity plays banned…. I think Bah Humbug to them and Merry Christmas to the rest of us.

Considering we live in a Christian Country with our head of state being our head of church also, I think removing Christmas because we may offend people who have chosen to come and live in our Christian country is ridiculous. Our Culture is what makes us who we are… so let us go and celebrate in what we believe in.

Merry Christmas to each and everyone one…. Christians, Muslims and Jews alike!

The NHS

grumbler — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:27:24 +0000

So I know someone whose health has recently deteriorated, and is seeking assistance and medical help. Ideally she would like to become better and regain her full independence, however she will gratefully accept any assistance that she can have because she realises that regaining her full health is tantamount to winning the lottery.

Let us give the devil his due… She does smoke and falls under the overweight category.

She has been diabetic since her twenties. Her diabetes plays around very dramatically and varies from a normal range to needing to be rushed into hospital as it hit 30 and she was lucky she did not enter a coma!! As a result of her diabetes, her eyesight has deteriorated to the point that she is practically blind. She suffers leg and back pains that sometimes mean that she can barely walk.

She has been referred by her GP for assistance in her home. However, apparently a GP’s word is not gospel. They are insisting that she attend a private clinic on a Sunday which will take her about 1 hour 25 minutes to reach there by their calculations. They have suggested that she should take no less than 3 different buses to reach her destination. No mean feat for a practically blind person!!

So now let us see it from a tax payers point of view. Aside from her normal NHS entitlements (which we should all be entitled to which is why we pay NI), which is also fair enough, there are unnecessary costs. These include:-

Private Treatment because our own government will not accept our GP’s word. Makes you wonder if we should take our GP’s word?

* The extra cost that it will cost for it being held on a Sunday.
* The reimbursement of her transport because she is not refereed to a local doctor or hospital.
* The extra paperwork because it is also printed in Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Greek, Gujurati, Hindi, Polish, Punjabi, Somali, Turkish, Urdu & Vietnamese.

And then we are surprised that there is not enough money to pay for life saving treatments like Herceptin for Cancer Patients and IVF Treatments for Childless Couples!!

Freedom of Speech

grumbler — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:02:40 +0000

I thought that freedom of speech was a basic human right but apparently there are exceptions to every rule.

Rules have been passed against people saying what they think on T-shirts as it may cause annoyance or inconvenience to some people!

They will soon tell me that I am not allowed my Carper Diem on my blog as it might annoy or be inconvenient to some people.

Green Peace

grumbler — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:57:42 +0000

Green Peace -? What is Green Peace? all about?

Green Peace was set up to oppose testing? Nuclear? devices in the states. Today it focuses on environmental issues such as whaling, the ozone layer, ? global warming, the rain forests, nuclear power,? genetic engineering, cloning, organic? items, etc.

On the other hand they have been criticised for being too extremist. Stories of their Eco terrorism were often? heard on the vine.? For example at one point? Green? Peace was anti chlorine, yet chlorine is important for? us. They have also been known to support non human causes over human factors!

However, there are always two sides to every issue and it is up to us to decide which causes to back and which to avoid. It is always good to know both sides to every issue… and Green Peace is no exception.
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Comedy

grumbler — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:02:09 +0000

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious — Peter Ustinov (1921-2004)

So is being serious a way of being funny? It would explain politicians!!

Guy Fawkes

grumbler — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:11:07 +0000

Guy Fawkes tried to blow up the Houses of Parliment on the 5th November.

Children traditionally since the 18th Centrury have built Guys to be burnt and begged for a “penny for Guy”! This money? used to buy fireworks to “set alight” Guy. However fireworks for under 18’s has become illegal. It feels a bit harsh that we have become so strict a society and care nothing for tradition.

“Remember, remember the fifth of November,

The gunpowder, treason and plot,

I know of no reason

Why gunpowder treason

Should ever be forgot.”

24

grumbler — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 23:14:47 +0000

I have been watching? a series called 24. It has left me feeling very insecure. They seem to be able to trace people and they seem to be able to know exactly where a person has been and what a person has done over the last few years or even more.

They say America is the land of the free. However, I suspect that it is only “free” on the surface because if they can monitor you constantly then you are no longer free. Big Brother is watching!

Debates!

grumbler — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 21:55:16 +0000

I found a place where you can freely have political debates. The rules and regulations are minimal. And at least it can offer a way to vent out any political irritations that we have!! It is also good because we can get different views and opinions too!

And you never know who might be reading!!