More in the news.

Apologies to all who were anxiously waiting for another update on this blog, still having some health issues.

The weather has gotten better since my last “report” the spring is almost upon us, and I have decided to do another “in the news” article to sum up the past few days.

The church is hogging the lime light these days with more than one reason... The top reason is obviously the Pope resigning for “health” reason, since this doesn’t happen that often, it is a “big” thing. The election for the new pope is starting today. More than 100 Catholic cardinals gathered in Vatican City on Monday morning for the first of two meetings where they could set a date for the next conclave -- when all cardinals under age 80 meet at the Vatican to vote for the next pope. Well let’s just hope that the next pope is not African (especially the Nigerian) since African Catholics are real despotic and quite unreasonable!! in fact the whole catholic church is unreasonable since they decided that contraception is against god…. funny how in the past the church has been promoting contraception and the use of condoms, until Jan Paul second….. he was the one who invented this crap, and caused a wide spread of AIDS especially in Africa. This is the proof how one person can force his personal opinions on to so many people who blindly follow ….. now I don’t even want to think about what happens if one of those despotic Africans start forcing their opinions on the world! It won’t be pretty I can tell you.

Of course, what is even bigger news in the UK is that UK is not going to have a representative in this “election” as the leader of the UK Roman Catholic church, the top cardinal, has just admitted inappropriate sexual misconduct. He made sexual advances towards another priest – a man! The person who is most against gay is actually gay himself!! What a hypocrite!

The next big news was about the Queen being ill and in hospital, apparently she had gastroenteritis, but is now better and gone home after one day. Now some are moaning that she is old and is working too much and that the princes (Charles and his sons) should do more to help her........ But seriously, she is 86 ffs, why the hell is she still holding on to the throne? Why doesn’t she retire and give it to her son or grandson? Guess she is just power hungry and selfish in wanting to stay on!! No good to criticise the princes when she wants to rule is it? Even Prince Charles is 64, and nearly of retirement age, by the time he gets the throne he will be ancient too.

The horse meat scandal is still going on and spread all over the world. It is more widespread that it was first anticipated. Now everyone is testing everything, the funniest was, when during testing a beef pie in Iceland they found out that the pie has contained NO MEAT at all........ how hilarious is that?!?

A high profile inquiry began yesterday to examine claims that UK soldiers murdered 20 or more Iraqis and tortured detainees in Iraq, in May 2004.

Seriously?!? Are we going to waste HUGE amounts of money on these claims just because some civilians died after a fire-fight between UK soldiers and insurgents... well blame the insurgents for attacking the British army when civilians were presents!! No one in their right mind will seriously believe that those Muslims tell the truth about this..... when do they ever tell the truth?!? I feel for the soldiers who are now being vilified just because they performed their duties. Sad! Very sad.

On a more positive note, doctors in US have reported that they have cured a baby of HIV, apparently the baby who was born to a HIV positive mother was treated from birth with the standard drugs therapy, then the mother stopped coming and now after 2.5 years they tested it and it was clear of HIV.

Some outside experts, who have not yet heard all the details, said they needed convincing that the baby had truly been infected. If not, this would be a case of prevention, something already done for babies born to infected mothers. Well, hopefully they did find the cure at least for babies...... would help to stop spreading of this awful disease.

I am going to end this rant with a fun fact: Women’s brains might be smaller than men’s but they are used more efficiently!!

Quote from the Sunday times:

“Neuroscientists at the University of California, Los Angeles , and universities in Madrid , Spain found that women's brains are more efficient , needing fewer neurons and less energy to complete a task. The study conducted a number of psychological tests on 59 women and 45 men, aged 18-27 . They found that in women the hippocampus, which plays a central role in memory, intelligence and emotion, consumes less energy and uses fewer brain cells on a given task than in men...”

So, as the old saying goes: It’s not the size that matters... :D

Lately in the news....

 
I was in the hospital last week which is the reason why I could not update this blog for a while, so I decided to make a sort of mixed post about the issues that were in the news while I was out of action.
 
The thing that dominates the news daily here in the UK is of course the weather.
The winter has finally arrived and with it a lot of the white stuff fell out of the sky. Snow is something that the Brits cannot deal with. Even a couple of inches will bring the whole country to standstill, nothing works, they can’t drive in it (well of course you can not drive in snow on summer tires) schools close, hospitals cancel surgeries and appointments cause the staff is not able to come to work, planes are delayed because of the snow on the airports...... It is kind of funny how it takes them by surprise every year even though they KNOW it is coming, the MET office gives quite an accurate predictions these days.
I remember when I first came into this country, it was very rare to get snow in London, but the past 5-6 (at least) years it came every year, so it is about high time the Brits get used to it and learn to deal with it. Instead of the moaning about it and blaming the council for not cleaning the sideways, they should make it a rule that every house/shop/business is responsible for the bit of the pavement that is in front of them.... that is how it works in every country that I know off.... you are responsible for cleaning your bit of the footpath, while the council will be responsible for the bits that got no houses/shops/businesses by them, and parks and clearing the roads.
Another thing is the winter tires - it is a law in Europe to have winter tires on your car. They make it safer or even just possible for you to actually drive on a snowy or slippery surface....
Oh well...... maybe in a few decades they will realize.
 
Another big news story that dominates the news is the hostage crises in Algeria. While I do feel sorry for the victims and their families, I don’t get why everyone is so surprised by this situation - everyone involved KNEW what they were getting themselves into when they accepted the job in that country.... While I understand that in this economic climate you would make this choice, they obviously got to pay loads for anyone to go to one of those countries, I will never get people who actually chose to go on holiday there (or to any of those muslim countries)
You got to be pretty much crazy or out of your mind to go there, endangering your life and more importantly, other people’s (who will be involved in your rescue should you be kidnapped) lives! It is just wrong to go there.......
There are so many other places, safer places that you could go to, no need to put yours and other people’s lives at risk!
 
Another story that I find kind of amusing and took me by no surprise is Lance Armstrong FINALLY admitting what everyone knew for a very long time, and what was proven several times -that he indeed took performance enhancing drugs and that he is a cheat! What I especially find hilarious is how he lied over and over for many years while competing and getting all those trophies and yet he is surprised that he got a lifelong ban from competing and he thinks that this decision is harsh!?! Seriously?!? You think it’s harsh?!? WOW...... who the hell would ever trust you again? And why should you be allowed to compete even more when you only just admitted what you did, and I don’t think you still realize how wrong it was what you did..... After all, you have been fighting the drug accusations in court for years hoping that you can actually get away with it!!
 
In other news:
 
There are still mentions of Kate’s pregnancy and also William and Kate’s new house. How Kate is going to extreme lengths to make her new house “invisible” and private by adding large trees and shrubbery to it to make it harder for the photographers...... well love, if you wanted to have a private life you should NOT have married a prince.
You can’t exactly have it both ways!!
 
Barack Obama was inaugurated as the US president for another 4 years with all the top “celebs” like Beyonce, Jay Z (fuck knows who he is but it was in the news), Katy Perry and Kelly Clarkson (and many others) present and gave another speech with loads of bullshit promises *lol* we all know that he can do fuck all, and is only a puppet - but whatever rocks his boat.
Unfortunately the Americans did not really have a great choice for whom to vote - so he is the lesser bad from two bad choices....... oh well...... guess we will just have to survive the next 4 years and see who will emerge then.
 
Well there were many other news too..... but these were the few that caught my attention for now..... and ....... I can’t be arsed to write anymore now.
Feel free to comment on whatever I said here, would be interesting to see other people’s opinions.

The EU debate once again

 
Every now and then the EU debate flares up again, the politicians for various most of the times selfish reasons try to convince us that leaving/staying in the EU is the best for the UK.

We all will have to think long and hard what would actually be better for Britain and not believe everything the politicians tell us when they try to convince us to do what they want to do, most of the times for their own gain.

The anti Europeans claim that EU became unaccountable and undemocratic federation with too many powers, that UK can not decide on things for themselves anymore and are ruled from Brussels, and they don’t like it. They claim that EU is draining British economy that foreigners are coming to UK and are taking away British jobs from British people... and so on and on..... and we would be better off out of there.

The pro Europeans claim that it is good for the UK to stay, that EU provides a free market for trading, it goes both ways, Brits are able to go to other countries freely and work and live there at their will. They claim that UK still can decide on their national issues, EU only legislates on issues of common trade or foreign policy.

There is many many more points which I am not going to argue at this time because I have not looked into the issue deep enough to actually be able to.
But just the fact that the discussion keeps popping up over and over is enough to probably make me to look into this in the near future, because no doubt there will be (or definitely SHOUD BE) a referendum where the British public will be asked to decide.

Yeah you read me right, I said the British public should decide, not the UK politicians and definitely NOT the Americans.... Surprised why I am dragging the US into this debate? Well I don’t blame you, but I can explain....

A US official yesterday said that if UK leaves EU, it will damage it’s relationship with the US.....

It was just on the news last night – and totally pissed me off!! It made me so angry how arrogant those Americans are, how they think that they can rule everyone and tell other states what to do!?! While they can't even keep their own backyard clean? Hell there was another shooting today, another crazy went into a high school and shot at innocent kids... and those people want to tell us what to do?!?! Really?!?

Who the fuck made them the king of the world????

So there you go folks....... if you were wondering about who rules Britain? It is not Brussels as many would have though..... it is fucking Washington!!

Well folks .... feel free to express your thoughts on this.