No Wonder He Has A Bad Back !!!


Described in one newspaper report as “Britain’s most feckless father…” Keith Macdonald is about to become father to his 11th child. He already has eight children by eight different women and apparently three more will be born this year.

Macdonald is claiming £68.95 per week in disability benefits because he has a bad back.

I wonder why ???

Sign Of The Crimes


Thieves who stole the copper from a school roof forcing the school to close are now to be warned off the unsafe roof… in case they are injured !!! Even though they should know that the roof has been made unsafe by their own actions.

This is just another indication of how ridiculous our country is becoming. Any criminal injured during the course of their nefarious activities deserves everything they get. They have no rights to medical treatment, no rights to fair treatment and certainly no rights to claim compensation.

Copper thieves who forced school to close warned to keep off gaping roof… in case they are injured by their OWN destruction | Mail Online.

ECHR – A Well Worn Trump Card


There it is again, the ECHR (European Convention on Human Rights),once again being used by a criminal as a “get out of jail free card”. Thankfully the judge, Noel Lucas QC, is not being diverted from handing down a custodial sentence. Good man.

Crooked bank cashier tells judge ‘You can’t jail me it will violate my baby’s human rights’ | Mail Online.

Japan earthquake and tsunami – My thoughts and prayers go out to the Japanese people


My thoughts are with the Japanese people following the enormous earthquake and sunami that has devastated many areas of the country.

I have to say that I did breathe a sigh of relief when I found out that friends and relatives in Japan are safe. At the same time I feel a little guilty for feeling like that when obviously so many people have lost their lives or have had their lives and homes wrecked.

Japan earthquake and tsunami: Fears of massive death toll | Mail Online.

View From The Conservatory


The sun is shining and the birds are singing but I’m not a happy camper.

Why, you may ask, am I not happy ?

Well its because I have had a tooth removed. Here it is gone midday and I haven’t had a bite to eat. With no prospect of having anything substantial before tomorrow. Currently I have a gob full of wadding and the right side of my face is numb.

This situation is not helped by my granddaughter texting me that I should have eaten before I went to the dentist.

Well I know that now Miss SmartyPants.

I have also had to bale out of two teleconferences since just listening isn’t very helpful and my joining in is probably reduced to the level of  mumbling and drooling. Nice !!!

 

Listen Up – Yell Fire


Yell Fire – Michael Franti & Spearhead

A revolution never come with a warning
A revolution never sends you an omen
A revolution just arrived like the morning
Ring the alarm we come to wake up the snoring

They tellin’ you to never worry about the future
They tellin’ you to never worry about the torture
They tellin’ you that you’ll never see the horror
Spend it all today and we will bill you tomorrow
Three piece suits and bank accounts in Bahamas
Wall street crime will never send you to the slammer
Tell all the children in the arms of their mammas
The F-15 is a homocide bomber

TV commercials for a pop a pill culture
Drug companies circling like a vulture
Ameriraqi babies with a G.I. Joe father
Ten years from now is anybody gonna bother?

Yell Fire, yo, yo, yo
Here we come here we come
Fire, yo, yo , yo, yo
Revolution a comin’
Fire, yo, yo, yo, yo
Fire, yo, yo, yo, yo

Everyone addicted to the same nicotine
Everyone addicted to the same gasoline
Everyone addicted to a technicolour screen
Everybody tryin’ to get their hands on the same green
From the banks of the river to the banks of the greedy
All of the riches taken back by the needy
We come from the country and we come from the city
You play us on the record, you can play us on the CD

All the shit you’ve given us is fertilizer
The seeds that we planted you can never brutalize them
Tell the corporation they can never globalize it
Like Peter Tosh said Legalize it

Girls and boys hear the bass and treble
Rumble in the speakers and it make you wanna rebel
Throw your hands up, take it to another level
And you can never, ever, ever make a deal with the devil

Yell Fire, yo, yo, yo
Here we come here we come
Fire, yo, yo, yo, yo
Revolution a comin’
Fire, yo, yo, yo, yo
Fire, yo, yo, yo, yo

Give this a listen

View From The Conservatory


Well its dull and grey outside and the wind has its dander up. Pushing and shoving the trees about. At least it’s not raining.

Just having my breakfast, Tea and Tablets. Don’t worry, they are legit, for my blood pressure. Just part of the daily routine, five in the morning and one at night. God I hate that little white one. It starts to dissolve as soon as it hits any part of your mouth and hangs on for dear life. It tastes disgusting. Half a cup of tea has not gotten rid of the taste.

Radio Paradise is serenading me as usual …. currently “Cold Shot” by Stevie Ray Vaughan.  Man he was good. Just thinking of all those guitarists that have passed over, what a jam session they must be having. Oh and now another favourite of mine…”Keep The Streets Empty For Me” by Fever Ray. The vocalist, Karin Elisabeth Dreijer Andersson,  sends tingles down my spine with this number.

‘Working is like slavery’: Teenage girl refuses to get job and spends benefits on nights out


And here is another story to wind me up. It’s a good job I’m on tablets for my blood pressure.

It’s no wonder this country is such a crap state financially. We might as well throw our hard-earned money down the drain. After all that is what the government is doing by handing out benefits to workshy scroungers like Sorche Williams.  She and others like her have  no morals and certainly show no respect for those of us that are in work and even less respect for those people who are out of work but genuinely want to get off benefits and back into employment.

Its time the government gave them all a kick up their collective backsides.

This is one show that I will not be watching as I know that I will have to go out and by a new TV set if I do. Surely the recorded material for this show can be used in a court of law to stop her benefits since apparently she admits to having no intention of looking for work.

At the same time her parents should be given a wake up call as they seem to be condoning what she is doing by giving her money too.

‘Working is like slavery’: Teenage girl refuses to get job and spends benefits on nights out | Mail Online.

Judge John Walford’s fury at benefits ‘sponging’ alcoholic Stanley Clifton


And well he might be furious. He must be sick to death of these layabout scroungers appearing before him.

I know I am furious and  sick to death of reading about how I am funding these layabouts with my taxes.

Why can’t Judge Walford stop this pariahs benefits ? After all Clifton isn’t even doing the community service that is part of his sentence. It should be within the judicial powers to halt benefit payments pending a thorough investigation of the validity of Cliftons claims.

Judge John Walford’s fury at benefits ‘sponging’ alcoholic Stanley Clifton | Mail Online.