Anti Israeli Academics

Just when you would have thought that the traditional UK left wing Marxist University Lecturer had died out, bowed down by the weight of historical evidence of how wrong they were in their political views ....

 

UK Academics Boycott Israel

 

....they re-emerge as pro-Islamic, and possibly anti-Semites of the worst kind.

Giving up the evil weed

I am in day 4 of my attempts to give up cigarettes, after 30 yrs (stunted growth man and boy), happily inhaling tobacco with only an occasional cough. I know all about the health risks etc, but the truth is that I enjoyed a cigarette with a cup of coffee, or with a beer, or watching sport on TV in a bar, or while reading a book, and I am sorry that the PC brigade have taken this pleasure away from the working man.

I decided to do so, in advance of the ban in the UK which kicks in on the 1st of July, because I am damned if I am going to pay taxes to be treated worse than a dog, by this or any other government. So I formulated the idea that if I, and every other smoker / drinker just gave up one or both of these little pleasures on the 1st July, then those left wing "PC fascists" would have the smiles wiped from their faces as "King" Gordon would have to authorise massive tax hikes to make up the revenue shortfalls.

Stopping Smoking ... Easier Said Than Done

It would also close thousands of pubs (as it has done in Eire, but that's being kept quiet under the guise of "selling because property values are so high"), and lay off thousands of part time workers, who the Unions said were "at risk of passive smoke" (despite the fact that they were mostly smokers) ... in fact it would wipe the smiles off the faces of every anti libertarian who decided that the state can make criminals out of 7 million adults in England.

As for the health implications? For me, presumably better, but a considerable pleasure, "a cig and a pint" removed from my life by a few MP's and campaigners. For the population in general well, and here's the rub, in Scotland and Eire cigarette sales have increased after initial dips since the pub bans which makes a mockery of the whole thing. There are now more smokers (presumably stood on street corners, or at home) than there were before the bans ... yep, they have reversed the trends of the last 40 yrs which had seen cigarette sales fall year on year.

If Parliaments were democratic in Eire and Scotland, then they would rescind the pub bans on cigarettes to see if tobacco sales started dropping again ..... fat chance, the PC brigade would wet themselves if democracy was ever allowed to intrude onto policies concerning "peoples freedoms".

How am I getting on?

Well I decided to just go 'cold turkey', none of that 'Smokers Gum, Patches or Hypno-crap' for me. I truly believe that 90% of addiction is simply weak willed people, the physical addictions are minimal, just some minor discomforts, it's the mental habits (oral and hand activity) that are the hard parts. Once you break those cycles, its simply a matter of choice, either you don't want to smoke anymore, or not.

So far so good, there is some physical cravings, but its less and less frequent, and should be gone in a couple of days or so. My metabolism will be clean (apparently) in about three weeks, and that will technically mean I have "quit". The "mental" side I suspect, will be with me (possibly forever), but I am working on the theory that, apart from outside, the temptations will be non existent, because there will be no facilities available in any building in three weeks time.

I am also trying to keep my hands occupied (by typing blogs for example), until they no longer feel like they are empty, and should have something in them .... mind you, I can see why people put on weight so I have restricted myself to three meals a day and no snacks apart from apples to try and ensure that I don't balloon out because I am eating nuts and crisps etc.`

Mind you, if I won the lottery, I would be out of here and living in sunny climes so fast you wouldn't believe it, and the Cigs would be back just as fast LOL ..... outside bars only of course, but then who sits inside in Greece or the South of France?

I will be honest, and if I fail I will add a post script to this blog (of course if I win the lottery I will add that note as well, and be blogging from my bar in the South Mediterranean) Ha Ha.

But as I say, even if I fail now, it's likely that I will 'have' to succeed in a few weeks time because I just won't be able to smoke anywhere, and they are now pushing to stop smoking in your own car .....

Update: It's now 5 months and I haven't broken ..... yet.

Next Update, still hanging in their at 7 months, but worryingly I dreamt I was smoking last night! Just a mental blip I hope.

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Malaya and Turkey (two of a kind)

The world’s a little bit more depressing today. I have been watching the news recently (as always), and have found it had to work up the energy to blog about any of it. Light relief is in short supply at the moment, and even distractions are of a sombre kind.

Iraq is lost to civil war (despite WW’s state of denial), the Palestinians are proving once again that they are dumb, even by Muslim standards, by killing each other over who controls the shit heap that is Gaza and the West Bank. The Lebanese are at it again, with Palestinians (yes them again) fighting the Lebanese army.

Democracy is never going to take hold in the Muslim world, and before anyone points at Malaya and Turkey as examples of democratic Islam, well lets just take a quick .

In Turkey, the Army has just threatened a coup to defend ‘secularism’ …. Hardly the actions of a democratic state that wishes to become “European” (What a laugh, they don’t even realise that if they were “European” they wouldn’t have to ask to become one). They also fail to see that if the army has to guarantee “secularism” by upending the elected government, then they fail to be European on at least two counts!

1. By voting for a non secular government, and
2. By having a democratic government over turned by the army.

In Malaya in 2003, the Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said that “The Muslims will forever be oppressed and dominated by the Europeans and the Jews. It cannot be that there is no other way. 1.3 billion Muslims cannot be defeated by a few million Jews. There must be a way. We are actually very strong. 1.3 billion people, cannot be simply wiped out. The Europeans killed 6 million Jews out of 12 million. But today the Jews rule this world by proxy. They get others to fight and die for them. They survived 2000 years of pogroms not by hitting back, but by thinking. They invented and successfully promoted Socialism, Communism, human rights and democracy so that persecuting them would appear to be wrong, so they may enjoy equal rights with others. With these they have now gained control of the most powerful countries and they, this tiny community, have become a world power. Of late because of their power and their apparent success they have become arrogant. And arrogant people, like angry people will make mistakes, will forget to think.” He has other thoughts along thse lines on the link below.

Hardly the benign speech of a secular minded leader of a Muslim democracy, well it gets better (despite Tony ‘Dhimmi’ Blair, trying to tell us all that Islam is a peaceful religion, and that Turkey should be in the EU, or that Malaya is a free and democratic state).

Malayan backed jihadists are trying to seperate two states in neighbouring Thailand by killing Thai teachers, nurses, civil servants etc. The idea is to drive out the native Thais, and claim that these two states are actually Muslim Malay, and always have been. The west, led by Blair are sitting by and saying nothing while this goes on.

Finally to top it off …. The Malayan government has moved motorway routes etc so as not to knock down derelict mosques, but has never diverted a single road if it ran over a Church, Hindu or Buddhist temple, whether derelict or not, these have all been knocked down despite objections.

In Malaya Converts from Islam to Christianity, or other religions, have to keep it secret, for fear of being stoned to death (as in rural Turkey) and live in fear of their lives, and the state refuses to recognise the conversion, in other words the same terrible treatment that non muslims can expect where ever islam holds away.

… Hmm, a democratic state if you are a Muslim, but not if you are a Jew, Christian, Hindu or Atheist. Keep showing the good judgement Tony by recommending Gordon as the royal successor…. Oh, you have already done that …. Like I said a really good couple of weeks!

Links:
Malayas Prime Ministers speech in full.
http://www.adl.org/Anti_semitism/Malaysian_1.asp
Christian loses final appeal in Malaya
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6703155.stm

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Orthodox Jewish and Islamic Treatment of Women

Its noticeable how much Jewish Orthodoxy and Islam have in common ... 

Ladies Of The Jewish Haredi Burqa Sect

I mean, we generally consider Israel to be a modern secular democratic state, that acts much like any European or North American state. This maybe because the Jewish majority in the West are what’s referred to as “Reform” Jews, who are more like Catholics, if you pardon the analogy. But there are many sizeable ultra orthodox groups, especially in Israel.