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Driving in snow, getting stuck in snow...
We used to live in Northern Canada where we got LOTS of snow. Even with special studded snow tires we occasionally got stuck. The SECRET to getting unstuck was KITTY LITTER!! We kept a bag of the cheapest kitty litter in the boot of our car and would sprinkle it in front of the tire. The grit of it would invariably get us unstuck.
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hi , i am a big fan of BBC WORLD
but i am wondering why did u change ur standered image ???
and i admire Zenab Bedawy , and i want to have her e_mail to email her
best regards
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Has anyone else noticed animated ads on the BBC web site? I've just seen one at the bottom of the Woman's Hour page.
I think that this is a very bad idea. I find these extremely distracting and I hope that the BBC will remove them immediately.
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The first thing we do, let's kill all the bankers.
Henry VI, part two.
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Back in 5 Mins...
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To all bankers,
CRY HERE
OR HERE!
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Obesity and morning assembly
The government seems to have a problem with morning assemblies at state schools – the question of religious content, multi-faith students e.t.c.
They are also keen to fight obesity by promoting dancing, sport e.t.c.
Why not kill two birds with one stone by abolishing the religious content of morning assembly and put the time saved to positive use by introducing a morning aerobics or stretching session for both staff and students?
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FITNA Dutch MP banned from entering the UK
A member of the UK parliament Lord Pearson invited the Dutch MP Geert Wilders to the House of Lords where he is planning to show Wilders film FITNA. In an act of craven cowardice the British government has BANNED a sitting MP from another EU country from entering the UK. They have done so because of threats made by another peer Lord Ahmed that he would ensure that 10,000 Islamic demonstrators would be on hand to prevent it.
The hard fought freedom that our fathers and grandfather’s fought for is being cast aside by gutless politicians who in their unwillingness to confront Islam are leading us headlong into an Islamofascist dictatorship.
Am I exaggerating? Only time will tell but the complacency and appeasement that preceded WWII should not be forgotten.
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ee4, Don't scroll to the bottom of the site.
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Once again the BBC has proved to be this government’s poodle and joined the movement to stifle debate. My post (no 12) regarding the threat posed by islam has been removed, judge for yourself if it contravened the house rules:
http://whengodsonyourside.blogspot.com/
Freedom of speech is the bedrock of democracy, without it we will end up with a totalitarian society. I am no fan of Geert Wilders but what he says in the film FITNA is beyond dispute as it simply juxtaposed verses from the quran with atrocities committed in the name of islam and justified by those same verses, the viewer is left to draw their own conclusions.
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Is it really ethical to include religious education as a compulsory subject in the National Curriculum?
I am aware that the subject includes discussion of the moral values and ethics derived from various religions but not all that religions preach is relevant to modern life or ethical by modern standards.
The subject should be renamed "Ethical Studies" and religion demoted to just one aspect of this. Other aspects which should be given equal attention are humanism, atheism, secularism and perhaps, an introduction to philosophy.
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@13, gcdavis
Have read your blog as you suggest. Very persuasive.
Suggest you try reposting it with the following changes:- In the first paragraph refer to "some" moslems rather than "most", and replace "the so-called moderates" with "some moderates".
And, in the next paragraph replace ". . capitulates to moslems" with "capitulates to islam".
Maybe I'm crediting the BBC with too much sophistication but it will be interesting to see.
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The Australian police have arrested someone on suspicion of arson in relation to the recent catastrophic Australian wildfires which caused so many deaths. So now people can get on with their lives; the culprit has been caught. But hold on - did the arsonist cause the hottest day ever recorded in Victoria, which dried things out to such an extent that vast areas of the state became a tinderbox? Somehow PM missed the most important part of the story. Global warming is here, and it's coming to get us. There will be a lot more burning in Australia, and a lot more flooding in Britain.
The police should leave no stone unturned in their search for those responsible. Here are some of the people they could interview in connection with their inquiries: John Howard, the former Prime Minister of Australia who refused to sign up to Kyoto. Rex Tillerson, the former CEO of Exxon who spent millions of dollars on propaganda aiming to neutralize public opinion on the issue, and largely succeeded. The police dragnet should not leave out possible accessories in the UK, including Northern Ireland's Environment Minister, and influential newspaper columnists Dominic Lawson and Melanie Phillips, all of whom have argued in one way or another that greenhouse gases are not harmful to our environment, helping to shape public opinion in such a way that damaging emissions continue largely unchecked, with the disastrous results now only too apparent.
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The wife said to me, be my hero and take the bottles to the bottle bank and I said why don't you do it? It'll only take you an hour on your mother's aerodramatically designed skateboard and you've got plenty of time between your cleaning jobs. And she said I know but there's a problem and it will take a hero to solve it.
So off I go wondering how somebody with 2 O Levels can't solve simple problems and when I arrive, there are two containers for white glass. In that lot goes, easy as mugging schoolkids. Then, green and 2,000 wine bottles disappear. Then it gets tricky: a brown Marmite bottle and some more brown bottles of dubious usage but no, there's a container for brown bottles. So, I'm thinking, what's the daft bat on about. Then I notice a plastic bag inside a cardboard box and I peer in the bag. Would you Adam an' Eve it? BLUE bottles!
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The BBC has received an official complaint from the British Humanist Association regarding the biased reporting of a poll commissioned by the BBC Religious Affairs Dept by the BBC Religious Correspondent, Robert Piggot.
Report
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7906595.stm
BHA Complaint
[Unsuitable/Broken URL removed by Moderator]
That an organisation like the BBC should have a Religious Affairs Dept gives pause for thought. As a news organisation it is reasonable that they should have a religious correspondent who objectively reports news. Rather it is a propaganda department used to promote a religious message at the expense of a secular one. Just imagine if the BBC had a LibDem Dept or a Hamas Dept rather than politically neutral correspondents!
The Director General and the Controller of Radio 4 both wear their religion on their sleeve and have demonstrated contempt for the non religious voice as the recent complaints over Radio 4’s Thought for the Day exemplify. More than 500 complaints and not a word of apology or justification as to why the Humanist voice is denied access to this programme.
The BBC has a public service remit at the heart of all its operations and that demands scrupulous objectivity. And yet the BBC reports secularism and atheism as if it were a fringe cult, using terms like militant atheist for anyone who challenges the privileges enjoyed by religion in the UK.
The BBC is charged with blatant discrimination that would not be tolerated if on any other area of public debate. The top management of the BBC foster this inequity because some of them are active members of faith groups. This is a situation that cannot be allowed to continue and will be constantly challenged until the BBC ends this discrimination.
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The BBC policy of restricting contributors to Radio 4’s Thought for the Day to those who subscribe to a particular set of religious beliefs clearly breaches the Equality and Human Rights Act. Although the relevant legislation is set out at various government websites, it is most clearly presented at the Citizens advice site.
http://www.adviceguide.org.uk/index/your_rights/discrimination/discrimination_because_of_religion_or_belief.htm
To summarise (quoted verbatim from adviceguide)
1 What does religion or belief mean
You are protected by law from discrimination because of your religion or belief if you:
# Belong to an organised religion such as Christianity, Judaism or Islam
# Have a profound belief which affects your way of life or view of the world, such as humanism
# Take part in collective worship
# Belong to a smaller religion or sect, such as Scientology or Rastafarianism
# Have no religion, for example, if you are an atheist.
2 Religious discrimination by organisations providing goods or services
It's against the law for anyone providing goods or services directly to the public to discriminate because of religion or belief. The law applies to businesses, charities and public bodies such as government agencies, local authorities, education and health facilities.
Discrimination includes:
# Refusing to provide goods or services
# Discriminating in the way goods or services are provided.
The BBC is a public body and is clearly discriminating in the way goods or services are provided. The Act defines Humanism and Atheism as systems of belief. The BBC seeks to justify the status quo by saying that TftD is produced by the BBC Religious Affairs department. It is thereby promoting religious belief at the expense of any other system of belief like humanism. This is not an adequate defence any more than denying women access to hitherto men only club would have been.
The BBC should think again and reverse this indefensible policy or they will find themselves having to defend it before the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
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