The other night Rod Furlong's chimney ctashed down into school road. Doubtless this will be pit down to an act of god.
God has a lot to answer for. If he is not blowing down unsuspecting pensioners chimneys, he is flooding out all and sunfry in low lying areas He is a menace to society. Its about time he was issued with an ASBO.
and as for some of his followers, if they are not telling you that you will go blind if you have impure thoughts, they are telling us that gays were responsible for Hurricane Katrina. Then you get the Muslim clerics who tell you that loose women cause earthquales and the catholic priests, who when they are not touching up little boys, sit in their little boxes giving themselves a quick hand job whilst Mrs O Grady tells him what the next door nieghbour did with her behind the potting shed.
Personally, I think the Devil might be a better bet. You might end up stoking the fires of hell but at least you can get in a bit of drinking and fornicating along the way, guilt free.
Wednesday, 30 January 2013
Tuesday, 1 May 2012
omething We Should Know ?.
Whilst perusing the candidates list for the forthcoming scottish local elections , I noticed that the candidate for the Scottish Socialist Party in the Johnstone North area of renfrewshire is one, Geoff Knowles. Does the former chair of Silverton Parish Council have a secret double life ?.
Open Mic.
I was interested to hear that The Stoke Canon Inn is now running open Mic nights where musicians turn out for jam sessions, mainly Jazz and Blues, apparently. These sessions seem to be gaining quite a following. Hopefully, one of our local hostelries will take the hint and follow suit.
May Day Greetings.
As we always do, we extend May Day greetings to all our readers wherever they may be.
Baxk To The Old Routine.
Sorry that the blog has been dead of late. Having aquired a new dog I have not been out and about as much as I was and therefore have not picked up any information worth imparting here. Unfortunately, my return to dog walking seems to have coincided with trhe start of the monsoon seadon, accompanied by occasional near hurricanes, so whilst I might be getting the excersise its far from being a pleasent experience/
Saturday, 31 March 2012
Wired Up.
I heard recently that David Cameron's favourite TV programme is the US TV drama series, 'The Wire'. The series, which ran for five seasonsm revolved around the efforts of the Baltimore police department to defeat the drugs trade in that city, whilkst at the same time bayyling against internal police politics and political corruption.
What the series illustrated well was that the so called 'war on drugs' is ultimately unwinnable. No sooner is one drugs network dismantled then another one moves in to fill the vacuum, Given the size if the international drug economy, the state, even the US with its mass of police departments, FBI, CIA, DEA and the rest can only fight a war without end, costing bullions of dollars and tens of thousends of lives, as is being brutallyillustrated at the moment in Mexico in the struggle between the Mexican state and the drug cartels and amongst the cartels themselves. In Britain, the same struggles go on at a much lower level but, apparently with as litle chanve of success. Even in a village like Silverton mosty people have friends or aquaintences who engage in the use of illegal drugs for recreational purposes.
Twelve years ago, when I lived in Scotland, the Scottish Socialist Party called for the legalisation of cannabis and thedecriminalisation of other drugs such as Heroin, and was widely attacked in the scottish press for doing so. In the years since, drugs decriminalisation gas become policy in countries such as Switzerland and Portugal, and allied to active medical intervention to break users from addiction has led to a fall in overall drug use in those countries. These policies have now recieved support from the Global Commission on Drug Policy that includes former UN secretary General, Kofi Annan, Former US secretary of State, George Schultz and Sir Richard Branson. Unfortunately it seems, that the current US administration, undeer constant threat from yje christian, conservative, fundamentalist Right. and the British government, as usual, in thrall to its American masters, seem to see no alternative but to keep going down the road to nowhere where drugs policy is concerned., What Cameron should learn from 'The Wire' is that the War On Drugs not only has failed, but untimately corrupts all those who involve themselves in it.
What the series illustrated well was that the so called 'war on drugs' is ultimately unwinnable. No sooner is one drugs network dismantled then another one moves in to fill the vacuum, Given the size if the international drug economy, the state, even the US with its mass of police departments, FBI, CIA, DEA and the rest can only fight a war without end, costing bullions of dollars and tens of thousends of lives, as is being brutallyillustrated at the moment in Mexico in the struggle between the Mexican state and the drug cartels and amongst the cartels themselves. In Britain, the same struggles go on at a much lower level but, apparently with as litle chanve of success. Even in a village like Silverton mosty people have friends or aquaintences who engage in the use of illegal drugs for recreational purposes.
Twelve years ago, when I lived in Scotland, the Scottish Socialist Party called for the legalisation of cannabis and thedecriminalisation of other drugs such as Heroin, and was widely attacked in the scottish press for doing so. In the years since, drugs decriminalisation gas become policy in countries such as Switzerland and Portugal, and allied to active medical intervention to break users from addiction has led to a fall in overall drug use in those countries. These policies have now recieved support from the Global Commission on Drug Policy that includes former UN secretary General, Kofi Annan, Former US secretary of State, George Schultz and Sir Richard Branson. Unfortunately it seems, that the current US administration, undeer constant threat from yje christian, conservative, fundamentalist Right. and the British government, as usual, in thrall to its American masters, seem to see no alternative but to keep going down the road to nowhere where drugs policy is concerned., What Cameron should learn from 'The Wire' is that the War On Drugs not only has failed, but untimately corrupts all those who involve themselves in it.
Friday, 30 March 2012
Silly Fuel
It now seens that there is to be no tanker drivers strike over Easter. The recent fuel buying panic must be one of the few occasions in modern history where a government has actually gone out of its way to generate panic amongst its citizens. The irony of course is, that had there actually been a strike, government ministers and senior civil servants would probably have been the last people to be affected as no dout, they have contingencies to cober such situations,
I suspect that one of the reasons for the panic may well have been that there has been an almost continual decline in the number of fuel outlets in recent years. Gone are the days when Silverton had Brady's or West's Garages to turn to. Now its the Speedway Garage on the Exeter road 2 miles away and thats it. I expect the recent panic will have done the sale of Bicycles no harm at all.
I suspect that one of the reasons for the panic may well have been that there has been an almost continual decline in the number of fuel outlets in recent years. Gone are the days when Silverton had Brady's or West's Garages to turn to. Now its the Speedway Garage on the Exeter road 2 miles away and thats it. I expect the recent panic will have done the sale of Bicycles no harm at all.
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