Archive for September, 2007
On The Lighter Side
Friday, September 21st, 2007
Ok it’s that time of the year again…yes you’ve guessed correctly it’s the 21st September. With that in mind, and since it’s a Friday, I thought I’d take things to the lighter side again.
Firstly we have a story that would definitely scare the life out of most people and 18-year old Leanne Smith is apparently [...]
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Celebrity: How far would you go?
Thursday, September 20th, 2007
Celebrity, in my opinion, is a drug. There are some that would sell their own grandmother to have it and some will even use murder to find some way of staying in the spotlight.
It’s almost like Gollum in the Lord of The Rings screaming “My precious” whenever he is closer to the ring. So if [...]
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Standing up to a bully
Thursday, September 20th, 2007
Finally it has happened. Finally someone has taken a reasonable stand against a so called “Leader” of a country who deprives his citizens of the basics needed to live and work properly.
Ok, I realize that refusing to attend a summit if, Zimbabwe’s President, Robert Mugabe attends might smack as a small gesture but at least [...]
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Zero Star Health Service
Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
The scrutiny will only get worse this week as the Leader of this country once again steps into the spotlight and gives a performance that he hopes will bore everyone to tears in a such a way as they will want to forget about anything remotely to do with a tribunal.
Meanwhile, away from Planet Bertie, [...]
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‘Through early morning fog I see…’
Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
Depression can often bring about a frame of mind that can turn to thoughts of suicide. Some call it a cowardly way out but it could be looked upon the last resort of a desperate person.
A recent study has shown that Finland has recently significantly reduce it’s once bleak record of being one of the [...]
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Nothing great about war
Monday, September 17th, 2007
Do you ever get to a stage where you just keep on doing the same things in your life and do not know why you do them? You’re are so far into a routine that you cannot remember why and how you started it or how you are going to find a way to get [...]
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Remembering the departed.
Sunday, September 16th, 2007
From my own experiences of losing a family member, I know that it can sometimes be too painful to go and visit their grave. Sometimes it can just simply be a case of time healing all wounds and we let their memory fade and the need to visit lessens.
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On The Lighter Side
Friday, September 14th, 2007
It’s Friday and here’s a selection of mood lightening to balance out all the heavy issues that I tend to cover.
Firstly we have the story in Bognor Regis, West Sussex where a baby hedgehog miraculously survived a an hour-long 40C cycle in a washer.
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Why hurt the old?
Thursday, September 13th, 2007
Attacking old people is something I really do not understand. We hear of stories of pensioners being assaulted on their doorstep just yours can get a small amount of money to feed whatever addiction they have.
On some occasions it seems it is just done for fun and the mind boggles as to how someone can [...]
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In dying we’re born
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007
The eyes of politicized Catholics everywhere are now squarely pointed at the Australian Church after the retired auxiliary bishop of Sydney (Geoffrey Robinson) released his new book: ‘Confronting Power & Sex in the Catholic Church: reclaiming the spirit of Jesus’.
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