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Uptight - The Blood Donor Experience
by fatsally
Once upon a time giving blood was easy, the atmosphere relaxed and people were encouraged to feel as is they were doing something good and worthwhile. Now, acording to fatsally's latest experience, a visit to the blood bank to offer a life saving armful is like The Prisoner meets Orwell's Big Brother. Bureaucracy has taken over and nobody is allowed to fel relaxed. Rules are rules.
Court Victory For Anti - MMR Campaigners.It is the medical scandal that refuses to go away. Since its introduction controversy has surrounded the MMR vaccine because in a small number - and we must stress, a small number - of cases children develop serious and permanent side effects after reveiving the vaccine. Now at last, after following a tactic used successfully in the USA and keeping the word autism out of their case, lawyers working for the family of Robert Fletcher have won the first award of compensation for 'brain damage' reslting from the MMR vaccine.
Property Prices To Fall Again?Despite government eforts to talk up a recovery the economy remains stubbornly stagnant. It is unsurprising really, the UK economy still relies far too much on the housing and property market and with incomes being squeezed and house prices remaining so high they are beyond the reach of first time buyers there is little change of increased activity while unemployment continues to rise.
Food Will Cost The Earth
A bid by Australian mining giant BHP Billiton to buy Potash Corp of Canada draws attention to food price inflation, rising commodity prices in world markets and an impending global food supply crisis. It is not just potash, essential in food production, but other finite resources like oil that corporate giants are bidding to gain control of that should concern us.
It's The Smell Of Alpha Males That Attracts Women
Women Can't Resist The Smell Of Alpha Males according to new research reported in today's Daily Mail science section. (If you think DSaily Mail and science should never appear in the same sentence just read on, this is good stuff.)
Alpha males have a smell all of their own, one that triggers certain hormonal reactions in women, the research paper reports ...
Last Of The Summer Whine
The zombie of British television will finally be decapitated and laid to rest this weekend, thirty years after the show was pronounced dead by everybody under ninety. The final episode of this ‘national institution’ will be shown sometime over the weekend but I don’t know when ...
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Conflicting Views On The Economic Recovery
Little Nicky Machiavelli writes: Nobody seems to know what is going on in the global economy. Take these two articles on the state of the recovery ...
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Cameron in Babygate Puzzle
The birth of a healthy child is always a happy event but the birth of a child to the wife of a serving national leader is bound to attract close scrutiny. So do certain contradictions in reporting of circumstances surrounding the birth of David and Samantha Cameron's daughter mean the conspiracy theorists will soon be at work?
Do We Need GM Salmon
US authorities today began the process to approve the first GM animal for human consumption.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a 60-day period of consultation and public meetings over whether to permit a GM strain of salmon to be eaten by humans, even though it has been called a "frankenfish" by critics. The approval process could take less than a year, and if it gets the green light the fish could be on the market in 18 months.
Environmentalists and scientists see the decision as marking a threshold. If it is approved it is likely to open the door to a large range of ...
Cameron Gets His Nudger Out
Politics seems to have been reduced to slogans and gimmicks these days. Bill Clinton had his cigar, Tony Blair his mojo, Gordon Brown had his big clunking fist, George W Bush his freemanmoxy and Barack Obama his skin colour and his 'yes we can'. What does David Cameron have? His nudger. And you don't want to be around when Dave gets his nudger out.
When Cousins Wed by John de Roe.
When Channel 4 showed a Dispatches doumentary about the problems caused by marriages between first cousins in Britain's Pakistani and Bangladeshi communities it was bound to kick off a few rows. The problem is not confined to Muslim cultures in the UK however, as with some many other social problems at its root lies politically correct thinking whch through the threat of branding people racist stifles intelligent debate.
The Big Carp Diaries
A spate of mysterious deaths among large carp at fishing lakes around the country aroused our suspicions. It only takes the meresty hint of foul play to hook our investigative reporters and the fish connections provided an interesting angle. We thought our readers would fall for a fish murder saga hook like and sinker. Here is the result of a year long investigation into the stange case of the carp murders. So here is our report, the Big Carp Diaries. Compared to documentaries about Cheetahs, Chimps and Badgers for human interest this is off the scale.
Labour's Loony Spending Scheme Cripples NHS
The nation was given a laugh when David Laws, treaury minister for the incoming conservative / lib dem coalition government revealed his Labour predecessor had left a note saying There is no money. it does not seem so funny now as the true extent of Labours financial profligacy is being discovered. The private finance contracts some NHS Health Trusts were tied into are crippling local hospital trusts financially.
Conservatives Plan Immigration Cap
During the election campaign the big issue for voters was immigration. Strangely it was the issue none of the politicians wanted to talk about. Now as unemployment refuses to come down and we face up to a jobless future and the government are looking at limiting numbers of immigrants the left are screaming about the need to ease immigration controls still more.
Are A Levels Only For Thickos? Private School Headmaster Says Yes.
The A level results published last week show a record percentage of pupils passing for the 28th year running. Is this really due to the wonders of our education system and the success of state schools. Or is it that exams have beome so easy to pass 97 per cent of pupils succeed. And why are top private schools dropping the A level curriculum in favour of the international baccalaureate?
Vertical Farming: The Looniest Idea Yet For Saving The Planet
Climate Science is a strange area of human endeavour. Part trainspotting, part trekkie convention going, it combines an almost autistic obession with collcting details, a very autistic obsession with focusing on a single theme and a fantasist's capacity for self deception and a taste for mutual masturbation. The latest loonytoons idea for saving the planet involves turning skyscraper buildings into farms growing food for urban populations. Apart from increasing the cost of food by 1000% and increasing rather than reducing the carbon footprint of food production the idea is so insane noboy could ever take it seriously. Nobody that is except scientists, politicians, academics and the media.
Going Halal In Harrow - Going Gay In Rome
As America divides politically again over plans to build a Muslim centre with prayer room (its not a Mosque OK) close to the site of the World Trade Centre destroyed in 2001 by Muslim Terrorists, Britain has a few divisions of its own brewing on a smaller scale of course. One involves Muslims and Halal meat in schools, in the other the gay rights lobby, famed for demanding tolerance, are showing no tolerance towards Roman Catholic religious principles.
The Futility Of Wind Farms.
In some ways the Conservative / Liberal Democrat coalition has made quite a good start in government. One area they are set to fail badly however is energy. Driven by politically correct thinking the coalition are set to follow Labour down the road that goes through wind power and eventually leads nowhere. Wind turbines look fine on paper. If they generate at their optimum output for 365 days a year the contribution to energy needs looks like a viable business proposition. The problem is due to the limitations of the technology and the vagaries of the weather wind farms are doing well if they operate at a quarter of their potential output.
Mad Scientists, Mosquitos and Ethics
Mad scientists are a fictional stereotype you might think, they exist in Bond films, pulp fiction anf B movies. Think again. A group of mad scientists have come up with a scheme to use genetically modified mosquitos with antigens in their saliva to eradicate illness by vaccinating the world by biting everybody.
Food Crisis Control Freakery
Fancy eating grey goo, or according to scientists meat grown in a vat. This is one of the ideas proposed by science and academic experts to deal with the problem of feeding the world when the population has boomed to nine billion. This number of humans is predicted to be reached by 2050. The simple answer to overpopulation that nobody is talking about is population control. Do we need nine billion people? Do we have the technology to keep population levels manageable? Yes and yes
The Little Robot With A Heart
Scientists have long dreamed that computer science and electronic technology will combine to create a machine that can think and has feelings like a human. It is a pipe dream of course, in the end a robot can only do as its programmers, via the software, instruct it. Perehaps in reality we are nearer creating a scientist like a robot, without thoughts or emotions.
New Test Can Detect Autism In Adults
Some people wonder why we Boggart Bloggers take the piss out of scientists and medics. Well:
1) It's our job
2) They must like it because they hand us so many opportunities.
The latest of these is the announcement of a breakthrough for medical science, a new test that identifies autism in adults.
Now you might well think ...
The Little Robot That Cried (science, technology) by Ian R Thorpe
A robot with the ability to express feelings and emotions has been a dream of science and technology geeks for decades. Is the robot unveiled this week, Nao, the breakthrough we have been promisted. Or is the robot just a clever toy with software that makes it able to mime certain human actions.
Don't Feed Your Daughter Any More Mrs. Lardarse
Worries about the number of obese pupils are still troubling staff in schools around the country. The problem is working class parents of fat kids are used to plain talking and do not like being told what to do. Teachers, steeped in the sterilising effect of politically correct thinking tend to give patronising lectures about five a day, the evils of trans fats and sugar attachment. What we need is some plain speaking advice on children's diet ...
Iceberg Alley Blues.
We must stop using oil say the politicians and scientists as it becomes more imperative that exploration begins in Iceberg Alley off the Canadian Coast, elsewhere in the Arctic and in other sensitive locations. They are just trying to soften us up for carbon taxes of course. Nobody knows better than politicians that the world runs on oil and that alternative non polluting sources are a long way short of being able to supply energy needs ...
Gay Rights Groups Single Sex Marriage Obsession Points To Constitutional Crisis In U.S.A.
When an appeal court Judge who also happens to be a gay activist overturned a democratically approved law banning same sex marriage in the U.S. State of California it was hailed as a victory for gay rights and a defeat for religious prejudice. That may be so, but it is also a defeat for democracy, justice and sanity.
Life On Mars After rubbishing reports of UFOs and alien visitations for years scientists got very excited when they thought they had found water (ice) on the surface of Mars. This indicates that other planets in our solar system miht just be able to support life. Not as good as seeing a flying saucer in your back garden though is it?
Life On Mars ConspiracyThe American Military have long dreamed of putting a men on Mars, landing a manned space craft on the surface of the Red Planet. Martians are such stuff as dreams are made of but reality suggests that as with the moon landing all the astronauts would find is rocks. Unless there is a conspiracy of silence to keep us from finding our Mars is home to a race of three breasted alien nymphomaniacs and the military and political elite want to keep this to themselves...
Life On Mars - The TruthScientists have sighed, UFO spotters have uffed and theorists have theed about whether life could exist on Mars. In spite of numerous UFO sightings, alien encounters and serious but ultimately futile research we were no nearer to knowing the truth about life on mars. Until now. UFO investigator and whirling dervish Adrian Tantric Spoon tells all.
Turd Nine From Outer SpaceWhat are the mysterious turn shaped brown unidentified flying objects that have been filmed hovering over Southern England. Are they alien craft on a mission, giant intergalactic jobbies from monsters that live in black holes or are they a message, harbingers of doom?
The Return Of Turd Nine From Outer SpaceSci - Fi B movie classic Plan Nine From Outer Space, Edward D Wood's masterpiece of incompetence has inspired many parodies. But has it also insired an alient race to vistit earth in their turd shaped space craft.
The Milk Of Clone Kindness
When news leaked out that milk from cloned cows, cows raised from embryos created by biologists in laboratories, was being sold for human consumption scientists were quick to point out there was no health risk from such milk. Nobody had suggested there was, what worried people is the inceasing tendency of science to play God.
Another Stupid Sat Nav Story
If there is one thing us Boggart Bloggers like better than a mad scientist story it's a stupid criminal story but if there is one thing we like better than a stupid criminal story it's a stupid satnav story.
Like this one:
Lorraine and Paul Emptage were relocating from Brisbane to Perth with their son Stephen and family friend Andrew Smith when their satnav told them to ...
IDS Welfare Reforms
Iain Duncan Smith, IDS, the man who sounds like an intestinal problem is the coalition government minister charged with reforming the over complex, over bureaucratic welfare system. Can he succeed where others have ...
Relaxed Muscle, Gland Problems, Obese Or Just Palin Fat?
by fatsally
2010-08-02
It is no longer politically correct to call a spade a spade, we have to say a person of colour. Similarly it has become de rigeur to call a fat person obese because obesity, accroding to the Politically Correct Thought Police, is a health problem whereas fat simply means a person is a greedy, lazy, lardarsed bastard. Well the coalition government is having no truck with that. Bring on the lardarses they say...
Fat, obese? Who Cares?
A health minister in the coalition government, Anne Milton, has criticized the health scare industry for branding as obese people who are merely overweight. In fact people who are not even overweight can be branded "clinically obese". It happened to ...
Iain Duncan Smith's Welfare Reforms
Through the course of our lives many of us will find our circumstances have changed in ways that affect our ability to earn a decent living. Illness, family responsibilities, disability, unemployment and old age are among the most frequent causes of people having to look to the social security system for financial support.
The benefit system, founded by ...
2010-08-02
Gland Problems, Obese Or Just Plain Fat?
by fatsally
A health minister, and I have to write that because there are no end of health ministers now, in fact there are no end of ministers for every department whereas there used to be one and then some junior ministers, has declared that we should stop using euphemisms and call a spade a spade, or more to the point a fatty fat.
She thinks a bit of hurt feelings following a barrage of ...
Israel And Palestine - It's Kicking Off Again
Israel launched air strikes against targets in the Gaza Strip after a rocket fired from the Palestinian territory exploded in the city of Ashkelon.
The strikes targeted a site in Gaza City which, Israely military intelligence claims, is used by Hamas the Islamist resistance group. The area is also thought to be and entry and exit point for ...
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Questions About Obama Past Just Will Not Go Away
it is probably difficult for British and European readers to appreciate what a terrible social atmosphere citizens of the United States are living in right now. In just seventeen months 'President' Barack Hussein Obama has increased the national debt by one trillion dollars, run up a record public spending deficit, increased unemployment hugely and divided the nation on racial and political lines more deeply that it has been divided since the months leading up to the Civil War. We have witnessed diplomatic rifts with many foreign allies and recently seen ...
When The Cutting Begins
As the coalition settles into its new job and the words of former chief treasury secretary Liam Byrne, 'There is no money left' reverbrate how will the new team set about reducing the deficit and mountian of debt, creating jobs and sorting out the financial mess left by Labour?
Teenage Prostitute Baby Poisoners
Today we have a surfeit of riches. Our favourite paper led on the headline “ Schools may be judged on teenage pregnancies and drug problems. What is all that about? Is the education system planning to start handing out GCSEs in getting up the duff and stonerology? Are the government offering NVQs for sex workers?
Legacy Of Rogernomics
by Ian R Thorpe
I read today of the first signs that government by the Conservative - Liberal Democrat "coalition for change" will change nothing except the names at the top of the news.
Coalition finance ministers are warning that "crazy spending commitments" made by Labour during their final months in power have left the British economy in a worse state than anybody could have guessed. Your Daily Stirrer writers of course and other Libertarian freethinkers in the blogosphere were reporting throughout that...
Rebellion Of The DHWFs
by Wat Tyler (Burning Our Money) - recommended by John De Roe
Wat Tyler at Burning Our Money blog has been giving it rice with his calculator and worked out how much it is going to cost the ConDem-ned coalition to clear up Labour's economic mess. And he reckons the burden will be too much to bear for the DHWFs (Decent Hard Working Families) who pay the bulk of direct and indirect taxes. Wat predicts a middle class tax rebellion. But then Wat has a track record for that kind of...read Wat Tyler
The Certainty Of Arse Dribble
Anal incontinence will get you sometime, not just in old age thanks to the zeal of health fascists waging war on the obesity pendemic. New anti obesity drugs that stop the body absorbing fat have among their side effects arse dribble. So take you choice, either eat less and get more exercise, settle for being overweight and bugger your health or accept arse dribble as the price of your self indulgence.
