Looking at life

It’s the sicko lefties who are the fascists.

It’s the sicko lefties who are using violence to try and stifle free speech.

The BNP has never interfered with a sicko lefty parade or speech and so it seems to me that the BNP are more in favour of free speech than the sicko lefties are.

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There are six zeroes in a million,
Nine in a billion,
Twelve in a trillion,
And fifteen in a quadrillion.

But now it's time to decide,
That eighteen zeroes make a squillion.

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Globalisation has meant that the British have conceded to the Yanks and so British billions and trillions are now the same as American ones. (We have to let our Yankee friends win the odd battle, it's diplomacy.)

But, who is to decide what 18 zeroes are going to be called?

I vote for the squillion.

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What on earth do you expect city bankers to say?

It's just another blairism.

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If you enjoy military history this is an excellent book about the first major battle between the Americans and North Vietnamese Army.

At first I thought it was just a little long-winded but then realised that the author, Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore, was making sure that every man who fought under his command at Ia Drang got his name mentioned.

A first class book. In fact this book is so good that I wouldn’t bother going to see the film as it would only spoil it. (it's generally always best to see the film before you read the book. If you read the book first it's usually best to forgo the film.)

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Despite the fact that a postal strike would be extremely inconvenient for me I have told my local post people that I fully support their industrial action.

If you want to live in a better country you have to be willing to make sacrifices and I feel that anyone who is against the privatisation of the Post Office should support the strikers.

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There is, unfortunately, a plethora of books on the terrorist threat and the average person is just far to busy to read them all and so, for an overview of the situation, it is important to find some books which are both solid and sensible.

To fill this gap I would not hesitate to recommend ‘The Next Attack’ by Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon. However, I will say that by the time you reach the end of this book you will see that the whole situation is infinitely more complex than the media would have us believe.

A most informative read.

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The girl the old man,
After ran,
His heart did lech,
So he his arms did forward stretch,
But none were bold,
So none him told,
That he twenty was no more,
As that would cut him to the core,
And so the truth they stalled,
When him ‘a dirty old man’ they called.

But of course,
Every story has a source,
So if the old man the lottery could win,
He to his heart’s content could sin,
As many girls would his wrinkled face not see,
And he to them would just twenty be.

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Tony’s hand,
Did him in trouble land,
As one who in him saw a snake,
Refused to it shake,
And said that he would it not grip
Because it with blood did drip,
And that Tony the killer,
Was of war a swiller.

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Please, please,
I will you not tease,
But psychiatrists now need,
To do the world a decent deed,
Because Tony Blair,
Who for himself does only care,
Is confident,
He’ll be the EU president,
But it to everyone with memory is plain,
He is really quite insane,
So if three psychiatrists would him kindly certify,
This the fact in law would clarify,
And we him could then lock up,
So he would be in a padded room banged-up,
Then the world could cheer,
Knowing he his own fate did engineer.

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There was a time when I used to spend hours on ebay looking for the unusual things I like to buy but these days I hardly ever bother - everything has changed and the new procedures make it all just too much trouble to bother with.

A long, long time ago when I used to use Amazon I eventually got fed up with being advertised to death and stopped using the site. Now it’s the same with ebay - I feel I’m being advertised to death and so these days I need to have a serious need for something before I will bother.

More importantly,

I’ve just flatly refused to pay for an item I’ve bought in auction. It used to be that when you won an item and clicked the ‘pay-now’ button you were taken directly to paypal and you, the buyer, told paypal to pay the seller the required amount. But now things have changed and when I won this item and clicked the pay-now button, I was taken straight to the seller's checkout page where I was expected to enter MY paypal log-in details before payment could be completed.

Well excuse me!

I’m not putting ‘my’ paypal log-in details on someone else’s computer. Especially a site that has triggered a security warning on my computer when I went there.

Ebay, I suppose, was fun while it lasted but now the fraudsters are mushrooming and it will become harder and harder for users of the site to avoid being cheated. But even if ebay offers to refund any stolen monies, it’s all a lot of aggravation - an awful lot of aggravation.

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