Politics and Religion

I am getting increasingly worried that I am seeing a trend in Westminster towards a hidden religious agendas with regards to governing people, i.e. the last Prime Minister (Tony Blair) and the replacement (Gordon Brown) new Prime Minister. Can I be the only person to be aware that they both have heavily religious backgrounds? Blair is Christian going Catholic and Brown is from a Scottish preachers family.

Don’t get me wrong, I am very keen to have a country governed by a system that encourages a high moral standard. But this should not involve any kind of faith or belief in any historically invented but unfounded creator or omnipotent being. How do you see it???

Firemen lose life

Yesterday evening fire broke out in a very large furniture showroom (Sofa Super Store) on the edge of Charleston close to Palmetto Jaguar, nine firefighters have lost their lives (part of the building collapsed on them), the worst loss of life for firefighters in the US since 9/11, the last firefighter lost in a fire in Charleston was 40 years ago. The names have not been released as yet but one of them was believed to be a young football coach at Summerville High School.

No other lives were lost, the cause of the fire not released so far.

We can only thank all firemen for.the work they do and the risks they take on our behalf.

Another London Mosque!

So the plan is for the mosque to be so big that people flying in from all over the world for the 2012 Olympics will it see it as the biggest landmark in London, bigger than St Paul’s, Westminster Abbey or Wembley Stadium.

Every one is entitled to their belief but with the growth of Muslim buildings and their ridiculous size I wonder how long it will be before the mistrust in the Muslim faith by the Christian community becomes a more serious local issue in more places than the government will like or admit to.

Appeasing a local religious group is only going to add to alienating the rest of the community.

I thought the official line was to aim for multi-cultural harmony and while I’m sure this is an admirable if not realistic goal the increase in Mosque buildings will only go towards aggravating an already irritating religious sore.  

Spiderman 3

Many people  cringe at the thought of super hero films and Critics have said Spiderman is a weak carachter but I’m sure most men who have the heart of a boy will find the latest offering quite hard to resist.

The mild mannered boy given the gift of, well, a spider, will surley make the boys have ideas and wishes like his and the girls will have desires only he could fullfill.

May the 4th should give all with  an imagination something to think about.

The great Global warming debate

OK, I’m prepared to admit I may be missing the point but all this talk about our ‘carbon footprint’ and ‘greenhouse gasses’ but where do this government get off.

Setting taxes on flying to attempt to discourage to much air travel and encouraging us to have a smaller carbon footprint then making arrangements for more capacity at airports and allowing the airlines to discus more transatlantic routes for more air travel.

If this is not to create a greater tax income then please explain. And it better be a good one because I’m not buying it….Global Warming, of course it is.!!!

Words of emotion

Poetry may be not the popular reading that it was many years ago but it is still the choosen read of many.

But, how many of you have considered writing it instead of reading it. To get some ideas, try looking at what other, non published poets have written. Some web sites give the opportunity to read and write poetry. Start with Poetry Publisher and see where it leads.

Anti Road Tax

Please sign up now. Tell the Government what we think.

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/traveltax/

or tell me !!!