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with it seeming increasingly likely that the donald will pull out of the paris climate deal, opinions are totally irrelevant, unless you happen to be a governor in an area where coal, gas or oil contribute heavily to the local population, and you have some interesting pictures in the safe of a well known lawyer. so, is the truth out there? can there be a rational argument when emotions get in the way? or is it all down to the green bucks, and besides, any real effect won't happen till I'm long gone.
should the general public have a genuine say in how our leaders decide our future, or should we just leave it up to the lobbyists?
its usually after three games that they are 37 points clear of their nearest rivals. not a challenge, and certainly not an achievement at the moment. get a few more teams involved, and then it will be relevant. international pre-season tour includes playing 5 teams based in the falklands. they win three, draw one and lose the other. rodgers talks about fantastic opposition with great character and spirit. gave the lads a good workout. shearing sheep and picking wild flowers.
i saw a bit of that what a great guy and a great servant to roma had numerous chances in his career to move to bigger clubs, and probably win more gold, but chose to stay at his boyhood club. not many one team players any more, all in to for the money nowadays. very emotional crowd, grown men and women crying, and everyone joining in the songs. many a tear was shed in rome, and it will take them some time to get over him. hope he gets a job with them, and he continues to have success.
as is becoming the norm, certain parts of london are being flooded with foreign money, and foreign residents. this is certainly the case where i live. a few years ago, a house in my road was purchased by a russian oligarch and his wife. ever since then, the building has been is a state of repair/renewal/demolition/rebuild with skips parked outside permenantly, scaffolding, tarpaulin and workers rushing around like ants at a furious pace. and now, it has all come off, everything has been removed and a new interpretation of the building has been revealed. and this week, an envelope with a note was put through our letterbox from olga, introducing herself, her husband (an international businessman who spends most of his time abroad conducting large business deals - her words, not mine), and her little boris 9 i think its a son as opposed to anything else). nothing too dramatic here, in fact all very cliche, until .... also inside the envelope was a questionnaire asking us to provide loads and loads of information about ourselves including: number of people in residency is the property owner or rented since when what do we do where are we from and a series of yes/no questions and finally about hals an a4 page space for any other useful information.
so i asked my wife to check with other neighbours whether it was just us who had received the letter, or everyone and whether other streets had also. she asked practically everyone in the area, and most people said that they had received one, but that nobody planned to provide her with any information at all. it's always been a quiet residential neighbourhood, where most people just get on with their lives, without knowing who lives next door. and thats how most people like things to be, and want things to stay that way too.
now i know that some people will say that she is just trying to be neighbourly and wants to integrate, whereas others will say she is a nosy cow and should keep her head down and be quieter that her workers were, and start keeping the area cleaner than her workers did. hopefully, no more empty energy drinks, paper cups, mcdonald's wrappers and sandwich boxes will be left around, as has been the case for some time now. be interesting to know who her husband is. defo not abro.
admitted, my wife and daughters all partake in this newly made up sport, but the mangalisation of two legitimate words does grate. i think the term arrived in the early 90's when rich wbanhers still had more money than sense.
previously (using negative terms to describe something positive, was the one that crawled up my rectum. saying something was 'wicked' or 'bad', when they were neither wicked or bad (as in the negative representation), but rather referring to something being positive and good.
i also used to think the use of the word baboon to describe someone of another/foreign ethnicity was a new thing, but apparently, being racist has been around for some time.
the other thing is the increased usage of american words in the english language. garbage for rubbish we buy gas to fill up our cars sidewalks in kensington saying 'have a good day' at 3 in the afternoon an elevator? aluminum cookies (they're biscuits, ok?) the hood and trunk of a car parking lot emergency room (it used to be casualty) french fries crib zucchini cocktail party?? wtf? is that some kind of gay orgy? fiscal year soccer vacation staycation sweater baggage pay check mailbox
there are probably many more that can be added, but thats just off the top of my head.
following france's decision to release back the ayatollah to iran and following the subsequent overthrow of the shah and moderate democracy, many intellectuals, teachers, philosophers and people with professions that would question the revolutionary beliefs, either fled or were imprisoned and executed. my uncle was deputy head of the politics department at tehran university, and that meant we were in mortal danger following the changes. there was talk of us going to america, but we managed to get a flight out to germany, where we were supposed to ultimately stay, but there was some intervention by the british government, and we then transferred on to london.
for us, the changes were unacceptable; we had worked hard to have a good stable lifestyle, but that changed with the revolution. and although many welcomed regime change, and even now are happy with the islamic state, history will show that it was not as good as people thought. as far as i am concerned, most of today's political instability around the world comes from one country. their beliefs that you must be like us, or we will plant the seeds that will rise up and overthrow your democracy and replace it with what we believe in is just unacceptable to me. the foreign television crews and journalists that report from inside the country simply have no real clue as to what happens inside the country that they report from. secrecy is upmost, and failure to tolerate and follow can mean that you will have a very difficult time. the happy faces you see there are those of a brain washed society that simply doesn't remember how good things can be, and fail to understand or question whet they are told. sort of reminds you of n korea or some other tin pot dictatorship. i was very young when we escaped, so don't really remember much, but many in my family do. don't let them fool you; time is on their side, and those seeds are slowly but surely gestating.
but i do love london, how interesting it is with so many diverse cultures, religions and ideas that freely function on a day to day basis. from seeing hare krishnas dancing in the street, to watching how patriotic people are towards the royal family, celebrating other cultures like the notting hill carnival, the sheer variety of foods to choose from, tourists from all over the world come to visit; i love this city. it's just the best place to live in. and that's mostly due to tolerance and understanding, respect for others views, beliefs, religions, politics, music and football clubs. there is absolutely no other place on earth like it, and although there has recently been a veil of suspicion, finger pointing and some ugly scenes on the streets, i wouldn't give it up for anything. it's a huge cooking pot with ingredients from all over the place, but it always tastes good to me. just don't let someone piss in it.
so today is my birthday, the double4, and i'm just glad to have made it this far. since arriving here with pretty much nothing but 3 suitcases (all our businesses, houses, cars and assets were confiscated by the State), i believe we have settled well and have had good, but hard working lives. i will be forever grateful to this country for accepting us in, but am sad to see how many people have such bad things to say about refugees in general. not all refugees are terrorists, but some are genuine refugees.
peace to all, love to all, and a little more tolerance from some.
now just stop that bolshevism right now, laddie. just by taxing our hard earned money, the government has the god given right to spend it how the devil it wishes. and if giving our hard taxed money to the froggies, the chinks and the commies is what they want to do, who are you to question it?
possibly, even though many refer to the hindenburg disaster, which was engineered by the us military, hydrogen could be the way. although there are only a handful of cars that actually run on hydrogen, with like a dozen refilling stations, so still a looooooooong way to go.
but too many people in power still have serious vested interests and make way too much money for alternatives to be developed or phased in.
yet.
when they're dead and gone, then maybe. battery power research was deemed illegal and against god's will under the bush clan, because they are oil guys. you will see in 10 years time how much better batteries are, and how much more range will be available from todays 300 miles to tens of thousands. the idea of these oil men not being able to continue fleecing us, or even countries in the gulf simply running out of money, is just too much for some to perceive, so things are kept sort of as they are.
bo, not joe, cherrryll, andy or cashley, but coal. as in miners. as in arthur scargill, margaret thatcher. that coal.
anyways,.....
it seems that britain no longer needs it. or no longer uses it. yesterday was the first coal-free day in britain since industrial revolution. now that's impressive to me, as coal is a dirty fossil fuel that pollutes and kills. so whats replaced coal? well, according to gridwatch.co.uk, around half of british energy on friday came from natural gas, with about a quarter coming from nuclear plants. wind, biomass, and imported energy were also used. which is good, n'est pas? even i have moved from a v8 powered vehicle to an electric one, and although someone somewhere has to make that electricity, its still much cheaper to run, and much more environmentally friendly. ok, so the initial cost is a bit higher, but i keep my cars for years, pile on the miles, and pound them to pieces so when i am done with them, so is anyone else, so this is a good thing, progress, and must me applauded.
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