Mini Mag 96
Dr Illya Ness says … There is a revolt in the Tory Party against the health service reforms. Is the govt beginning to care? No. They fear they could harm chances of re-election.
My Illness page
Polly Ticks says … Prime Minister wants a football ‘racism’ summit. Discrimination should always be fought, but what the hell has this to do with the govt? They want to politicise everything nowadays.
My Politics page
Guru Tony says … Poor diet kills 2.6 million infants a year worldwide. Did the 3rd World have such problems before western interference, or did their society cope? Beware. Globalisation kills.
My Environment page
THE CRIME POST
REVOLUTION: The elderly lady noticed
the young couple behind her. She thought:
mugging. A revolution in attiude as she
took out her knife – robbed them.
Techie Without A Clue says:
They are light fingered
Stealing your life, like fairies
Elemental hacks
ESSAY: FRAUD - Don’t you just hate it – being told things that aren’t true. And if the lie goes on, and you’re conned? Well, fraud just isn’t nice, is it? And confidence tricksters are the scum of the earth. So please forgive me as you read this essay. That’s fiction writing for you. Fraud for the law abiding.
Blogger Bard says:
He’s fed up of drafts
Smash window – police give him bed
Break from homelessness
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ELEMENTAL: Conan Doyle wrote more than
Sherlock Holmes; even about fairies -
which caused a problem when he got mixed
up and a fairy appeared in a Holmes
tale. Sherlock scratched his head.
Said: ‘It’s elemental, my dear Watson.’
***
He did love the spring
Cash down; spring sprung. Caught!!! By cop
Locked up ’til next Spring
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Major de Ranger says … As rockets rain down on Syrian towns, China & Russia veto UN Resolution, then the latter tries its own diplomacy which fails. World opinion is more important than Russian posturing.
Pappa Razzi says … It would have been Charles Dickens’ 200th birthday last week. It is good the UK celebrated this greatest of novelists. Strange how ultimate success comes for a writer after death.
ESSAY: E-BOOKS - Horror in publishing. They’ve lost the e-book plot. Maybe because e-publishing doesn’t need them now. Will it be a wake up call that they’re going stale? Meanwhile e-books have become the new proving ground which will hopefully rejuvenate literature. Reminds me of the printing press, which fuelled the Renaissance. A new one on the way?
ESSAY: DYSTOPIA - Dystopia – the idea of a controlled State – is a major Sci Fi theme, echoing fears of the future. But is it still Sci Fi? Computers have many advantages, but also flaws. They create rigidity in administrations and society becomes machine-like in response. Deviation and choice lessen and control grows. We may be already there.
Techie Without A Clue says … Good old Facebook & Twitter. As soon as you get used to something, they change. What happened to the old adage: if it’s not broken, don’t fix it.
ESSAY: CONFIDENCE - I’ve got a problem with confidence. I see it all around me – or, at least, I used to. But if you challenge a man on his confidence, reactions get emotional. As I see it, confidence is a mask to hide the true person. Indeed, show me a truly confident man and I’ll out the wreck.
Polly Ticks says … Mass credit downgrading in Eurozone countries, ‘cos leaders are not doing enough. Good example of who rules – politicians or business.
Dr Illya Ness says … Charities speak of ‘neurology timebomb’ as Parkinson’s, MS and motor neurone increase, but what surveys are being made into the modern life causing it?
Pappa Razzi says … Wikipedia blacked out last week in protest at copyright legislation. I’m all for guarding copyright, but not sneak attacks on freedom.
ESSAY: BLACKMAIL - Blackmail is the vile attempt to gain something from another by threat of disclosing a secret. Yet blackmail could be on the way out. It relies on society having a strong moral ethic, so as morality declines, so does the possibility of disgrace. Who’d have thought that immorality could be a means of fighting crime.
ESSAY: APOCALYPSE - Armageddon is a Latinized word for the Hebrew, Megiddo, site of an early battle. Nothing more. Apocalypse actually means ‘prophetic disclosure’, or Revelation. If you take symbolism out of THAT book you have a blueprint for political revolution, as in French or Russian Revolutions. That’s all. Let’s not blow Apocalypse up out of all proportion.
Prof Isaac Galistein says … Report says UK could only stand a week of disruption after major disaster before society collapses. ‘Just-in-time’ business & globalisation blamed. Such a fragile world we’ve created for ourselves.
ZOO: No one knew who began it, but taking species from different epochs and creating a time zoo was novel. No one knew who captured the dinosaurs, or humans, or androids, or interplanetary species. No one knew whether it existed in the past, present or future. Indeed, no one knew whether they were visitors or exhibits.
YOU: I looked in the mirror and it was you. This was no good as I was sure I’m me, but you just wouldn’t go away no matter how many times I blinked. If only I could be me, and not a reflection of who you think I should be. But that’s the thing about parents.
TO CARRY ON: To demolish a mind. That was my choice after the … murder. To carry on without her. Make a resolution to transform my grief – make something of my life. At the end of the process I became a cop – a good one. And only now and then did I even consider the perfect crime and kill again.
XENOGLOSSY: The elderly psychical researcher scratched his head as he wrote his report. It was a young girl who had been possessed, exhibited Xenoglossy (the ability to speak in strange tongue). Starting with the first two words, he wondered what they meant. ‘omg lol’.
