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Continue reading →: You can go off people
I went off on a bit of a rant this week. I should stop looking on the news pages for inspiration, all I find is a sad indictment of human cruelty. A lack of tolerance and understanding masquerading as righteous propriety. This only goes to remind me that we put up…
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Continue reading →: No rhyme…
Will we hang her by the neck boys, will we stone her until dead? An adulteress and apostate she chose the harlot’s bed We’ll wait until her child is born before we use the lash Don’t ask about corruption and the Presidential stash We need some propaganda, a distraction from…
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Continue reading →: Apostasy – a death sentence in Sudan
A Sudanese woman who was raised as a Christian by her mother, married a Christian man. A cause for celebration you’d think, but not under the Islamic law imposed by the Sudanese courts. [bbc.co.uk/news] She was found guilty of apostasy (abandoning her faith) and sentenced to be hanged. Because she…
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Continue reading →: Animal behaviour
Two male penguins are rearing a chick that was abandoned by its parents at a Kent wildlife park. And the foster chick has apparently helped the two Humboldt penguins with relationship difficulties. The Daily Telegraph reported the park owner as saying the unlikely pairing “had been fighting frequently” but are “getting…
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Continue reading →: Retirement complex?
I’m not quite in my dotage yet, but I do occasionally consider what options I will have when I stop working. My pension is not going to provide anything like the income I have now. Our mortgage should be paid off by the time I reach 70. I have been…
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Continue reading →: Bin there done that
We have a new policy at work re bins. No more traditional wastepaper baskets around our desks. Instead we have wee silvery buckets that sit on the desk. Meanwhile the kitchen bins are chokker to overflowing. A kettle sat on top of the swing bin, beneath that a tumble dryer,…
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Continue reading →: Twins born holding hands
Jillian and Jenna Thistlethwaite shared their mother Sarah’s placenta and amniotic fluid. As they prepared to be born Jenna looked at Jillian and said “Well, I guess this is it dear sister.” Jillian took her twin’s hand and replied “Happy birthday!”. The doctors and nurses at the Akron General Medical Center…
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Continue reading →: The Wurst show?
Europe came together last night to thrash out an issue that has troubled our nations for the last year. Who will win the Eurovision Song Contest? Some thought that a Swedish siren would lure voters to her shores, others that Polish maidens would suggestively milk votes their way. Only the gullible thought…
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