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Continue reading →: Searching for hope
The tragic news that the yacht Cheeki Rafiki had been found with its life raft onboard will allow the sailors’ families to grieve now. It’s a shame that it took a petition to get the search resumed, but we should be grateful for the efforts of the US Navy helicopter…
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Continue reading →: Choose or face the consequences
Sorry about the badge – the message however is fairly poignant. The temptation to stay away from the polling stations, particularly when there is a two-party game being played, makes suckers of the electorate. We get the chumps we deserve if we do nothing.There’s a good chance those chumps…
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Continue reading →: Systems for people
Like millions of people I am often frustrated by badly constructed computer systems. To be fair most of the apps I use are brilliant (WordPress included) and have intuitive user interfaces. But occasionally you run into a piece of crap that does your head in. I recently tried to buy…
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Continue reading →: Flying high on words
High Flight by John Gillespie Magee Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth Of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung…
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Continue reading →: The right not to vote
Civic responsibility is a moot point. If you pay your taxes, put your bins out and register on the electoral roll, surely that’s it? Why should you trot off to the polling station if you don’t want to? It might be that the very act of not voting is the…
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Continue reading →: Election time – bring out the whackos
Northern Ireland is festooned with posters of political candidates hoping to get elected to local councils and the European Parliament on 22nd May 2014. Susan Anne White is standing as an independent in the new Fermanagh and Omagh district. She is campaigning on what she says are the three most…
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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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