This and That.
Those poor Socialists can’t seem to get anything right. I went to Grammar School back in UK and an excellent school it was too, as were they all. Kids who were bright but from poor working class families by passing the eleven plus exam could gain a place in them giving them a chance to do better in life than would otherwise be the case. But in a particularly egregious example of the politics of envy the Labour Party decided to abolish them in favour of Comprehensives, this they reasoned would give every child the same opportunity and avoid the snobbishness they associated with the Grammar Schools.
Well guess what, didn’t quite work out that way.
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I try to ignore all diet advice or admonition, part because I can’t be bothered to follow it and part because it so often turns out wrong. I’ve wondered too if there is a link between the large amounts of milk consumed, which ‘they’ tell us is so good for us, and the incidence of heart disease. In my funny way of thinking, I see milk as a specialised food for the sustenance of baby cows. What the hell do we and our digestive systems have in common with them? [Confession, I can't stand the stuff and don't go near it] From the Daily Telegraph:
Eating an apple a day might keep the doctor away, but it could also be the reason why your figure is going pear-shaped. Scientists have discovered that fructose, the kind of sugar found in fruit, causes weight to build up disproportionately around the stomach, rather than being spread around the body.
There are significant implications to all of this: is the Government’s five-a-day campaign, with its insistence on filling our diets with smoothies and juices, actually a cause of the obesity crisis?
Will compensation be demanded by brewers, whose trade has been damaged by the link between their product and “beer bellies”? Will these, in turn, be re-labelled “berry bellies”?
All part and parcel with the previous item , the meddling nanny state telling and coercing us into what they think is good for us.
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Speaking of which, how’s this for gasket blowing and mind blowing idiocy?
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From The Diplomad, Obama and the Art of the Chinese Food Speech.
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That’s shallot. Night night.
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ligneus1 June 28th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
I’d say it pisses me off more than breaking my heart that they can’t come up with better leaders and keep falling for the socialist hucksters. Much like America though there are many of the old school and their turn will come.