22/05/2007, 22/05/2007 - News
There is much debate at the moment about future energy resources. I remember when Chapelcross was built, a family friend who lived in Canonbie was a scientist there so my dad and I got a personal tour round and into the hub of things. It was pretty impressive to a young teenager to see the such new technology......am I so impressed now? Well the truth is I don't know enough about it to judge....I do know there is a problem with the waste it produces and I do know other things can be derived from it so I guess on balance I would at the very least be doubtful.
I didn't use to be anti WMD's but thanks to television and the devastation I saw in Iraq with ordinary conventional weapons I cannot even begin to think of what would happen if someone fired even ONE let along 40+ of these things, [which is what one of these subs can carry].....forget climate change there would be nothing left to save. As for the cost...how many could be cured of cancer.....how many more doctors....how many more schools or council houses could we have with that kind of money.....our money!.....do we in Scotland really want to be part of this obscenity?
What makes it even more scary is the loss of trust we have in our leading politicians and in the Intelligence service.....it reminds me a bit of the way fundamentalists operate...they only see what they want to see and don't take any regard for the full picture. Bush and Blair were on a mission and we have seen where that got us and we see see where it has taken Iraq.
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( 3 / 507 )21/05/2007, 21/05/2007
I have just made one of those quick trips into town dropping Ray of at the Southern General. Playing catch-up with the early morning traffic reminded me of the many mornings I would join the workers heading for the office or other places of employment in Carlisle. Most of the time I needed my car for work because I never knew where I would be from one hour to another. Occasionally I would block out a few days for office work only which allowed me the luxury of travelling in by bus which meant I would arrive at my desk unstressed.
I'm sure many of us remember the days when driving was sometimes fun even relaxing! and the pace of life much slower. I had thought with the dawn of computers that many would prefer to work from home....they do in the USA but some how it hasn't quite caught on over here. It would mean less office space needed....less traffic and a healthier life-style which all brings about a more productive work force. Working from home however does mean you have to be disciplined....like most things in life the key is balance....maybe as a nation we are not very good at that.
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( 3 / 81 )19/05/2007, 19/05/2007
Presidents and Prime Ministers always come in for some criticism from opposing parties but I don't think I have ever heard a PM being referred to as 'subservient' to any President before. Yet such are the words used about our PM in relation to George Bush by a former US President....so out came the dictionary to clarify what was being said here. A similar word is 'obsequious' meaning 'sickeningly respectful' or 'servile'...what an indictment on Tony Blair and what was it about G.Bush that made it so....[if you go along with the statement in the first place!]
Was it Blair's appetite for the kind of power that US Presidents have that held him in such awe?...I mean let's face it, it could hardly have been the man's intellect that attracted him!....so what runs deep inside Tony Blair that made him look so servile to George Bush, not on one occasion but many.
Have we become a 'subservient' nation?....have we through our PM lost the 'Great' in Great Britain?....sadly I think so, we have certainly lost a lot of respect....but then you have to earn respect don't you?
Is this grounds for divorce?!!!!!
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( 2.9 / 93 )18/05/2007, 18/05/2007
I noted that our new PM in waiting mentioned AGAIN his feelings about the 'Break up of the Union'.....strange isn't it how fixated they are about this subject. They go on and on about what Scotland will loose if it ever came about.....maybe the question should be the other way round if we really want to get to the truth of all this hype. What would England loose?!!....we are continually projected as the 'poor relation' in all this yet the Chancellor's coffers are buoyed up by our oil and our whisky and many other things.
Now what would they get back?.....why their Atomic weapons of course and they would not want that would they, or should I say the electorate would not want them. Any PM who would seek to do so would do it at his/her parties peril, that was made very clear to us while speaking to some folks from south of the border.
So let's get honest here and keep looking at the question the other way round.
Never trust a man who has duped you in the past, it's in his nature...he will do it again!
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( 2.8 / 84 )17/05/2007, 17/05/2007
Today Scotland starts a new journey into uncharted waters. The word is 'consensus'....easy to say, difficult to achieve unless you have willing partners. Today I think we saw just how unwilling those partners are going to be.
To abstain from voting is to take the easy way out....easy and in many ways dishonest....but hey that's Labour is it not? If they could abstain today of all days heaven help us in the future months. They dishonour Devolution and they dishonour the people of Scotland.
Al Qaeda on the other hand have had a good day, handed to them courtesy of the British Army. As the mother of a son who has been in Iraq twice I am appalled at the decision not to allow Prince Harry to go to Iraq. Why spend so much of tax payers money training him if he is not going to do the job. If we cannot protect him or any other soldiers in Iraq what on earth are we doing there? If we cannot trust the Iraqi soldiers with sensitive information why do we even bother with these people?
If Iraq was bad under Saddam it is infinitely worse today, instead of one monster we have managed to create a country full of them.....I hope Mr Bush is pleased with himself and as for TB....history will judge him and so will his God.
On a lighter note the sun has decided to hide for a few days and the mists are rolling down over the mountain tops, not good weather for Stag watching!!
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