5 November
It’s that date again where elderly folk fear of having
fireworks put through their letter box; where pet owners fear for the sanity of
the pets. It’s also a time when a lot of money is raised for various good
causes up and down the country. Personally, I would love to see the whole thing
scrapped in favour of something that doesn’t use fires and fireworks in any way
at all.
Legally, today is the only day of the year where we all
are allowed to own and let off explosives. Look at why we do this every year
though; it is all about a Catholic plan to kill the King of England. Since
1605, that’s 410 years now the whole country celebrates that failure, an effigy
of Guy Fawkes is burned. Now, hang on second; if we were celebrating the death
of a Muslim in that way, there would be hell on wouldn’t there? So why the
difference now?
There’s an interesting case going through the high
court right night. A pregnant woman ignore all warnings and continued to drink
heavily during her pregnancy. The child was born disabled and was taken into care.
The main point being discussed is whether or not a foetus is a living person.
If the court decides it is, then the child should be due for a payment under
the criminal justice system. Call me cynical if you wish, but its social
services that have brought this case. I’m wonder just how much the case is in
the child’s benefit and how much is it down to SS wanting to use such damages
to go towards the costs of care. As I say, call me cynical, but SS don’t do a
lot unless they are about to gain from it. There is another here though.
Abortion is a contentious issue no matter what your
view point is. But if the court decides in favour of the SS case and say that a
foetus is a person, what effect will that have of the abortion industry? Do you
see what I am saying here? If a foetus is found to be a REAL person then an
abortion would be a murder. At what point will there be a cut off from
prosecution for murder in past abortion cases. I bet there’s a lot of legal
minds paying a lot of attention to the current case in the courts. I would also
bet that there is a lot of lobbying going on behind the scenes too!
Here’s two that went full term …
Tom and Kile.
And today’s funny …
Jeff was
fast asleep in his at bed at 3:00 am when he heard an urgent knocking at the
door. Rubbing the sleep out of his eyes he made his way to the door. “Can you give
me a push”, asked the man at the door.” Jeff looked at the man, thinking he
looked a bit drunk, slammed the door in his face and went back to bed. “Shame
on you”, said his wife Sally, when hearing the story. “You remember on our
vacation how our car got stuck in the middle of the night and that man helped
us, go out there and push his car.” So Jeff trudges back out of bed, opens the
door, and calls out “Ok I’m here to give you a push, where are you?” I’m over
here in the back” came the voice “on the swing.”
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