Life Imitates Art

I vaguely remember that the Power Rangers were a kids craze on TV, having pushed the Teenage Ninja Mutant Turtles into the back ground.

The Power Rangers Were After My Time ....... Thank God!

This was in the early mid 1990s, and I was well past the age where it would have impacted me in anyway,

Peoples Of A Closed Book

Anyone deemed to be 'People of the Book' (Non Muslims, but who were following a monotheistic Abrahamic religion, that is older than Islam - But there are no hard and fast rules on this), and living in an Islamic nation, usually under Sharia Law, were given a number of rights ...

People Of The Book - May Not Share The Same God Or Beliefs ......

.... These rights were limited, casting them as dhimmi, a position not dissimilar to women and slaves in that they had restricted rights, and for the dhimmi this included such things as the right to freely practice their faith in private, and to receive state protection (sort of). 

Economic And Social - Electoral Brinkmanship

As we edge toward the US Presidential election day on November the third ....

Same Old Politics In The "New Normal" ....

... the political stakes grow higher.

The Last Broadcast

The final notes we hear just before Gabriel's trumpet sounds ....

The Last Broadcast? .....

..... and the dead prepare to rise (regardless of whether its a man made event, or at the last judgement itself), may well be a sign off by our TV presenters and Broadcasters ..... that alone is a rather chilling thought ... and what would they play?.

Dowsing For Beginners

Now I don't know about you .....

18th Century Illustration Of French Dowser ....

But I have always been fascinated by dowsing .... you know, two bits of bent wire crossing, apparently spontaneously, and signifying that something lies below, or that lines of a force exists.

Political Deaths Matter

The US federal system has resumed executions after a 17 year hiatus, even if many states have not.

Lee, Purkey, and Honken - All Executed 2020.

The reasons given in a statement were that  "Under administrations of both parties, the Department of Justice has sought the death penalty against the worst criminals. The Justice Department upholds the rule of law - and we owe it to the victims and their families to carry forward the sentence imposed by our justice system."

A Real Pain

So here we are again ......

Abbey Road Under Covid-19 Lock-down ....

Half the country in ĺock-down, aka tier 3, or in the case of Greater Manchester, apparently being allowed to ignore the governments instructions while the Mayor argues about it.

Car Capers And Dumb Asses

Norfolk constabulary stopped a Peugeot 206 in King's Lynn, Norfolk because it was missing a front bumper and a side section, and its tyres were flat.

Rust Bucket

 

But they were stunned when they found it had no steering wheel, with a set of mole grips being used for steering, and the driver using an upturned bucket for a seat.

Money Eating Snakes

Some criminals, don't make much effort to get away with their crimes  .....

Wanted - A Brain.

For instance, a Nigerian sales clerk for the Nigerian examination board has been suspended, after she told auditors that a snake had eaten 36m Naira ( $100,000 or £72,250), in bank notes.

Fictional Bloggers

Two fictional web characters ...

Nom De Plume's Are Normal For Most Bloggers, But Also Vital For Some

... from two different cultures, but the same respect from their loyal supporters.

Monsters Walk Among Us

In India, rape attacks have continued on a depressingly regular basis .....

Rape Protests In India Are An Annual Event It Seems ....

.......despite the outcries, and apparently undeterred by the changes in the Indian law.

The Wild Rover

When a man left his £110k Range Rover with a parking firm at Manchester Airport he fully expected to see it when he returned from his holiday in Majorca.

Careless Parking ......

What he didn't expect was that it would be, as he described it "smashed to smithereens" ...

Freddy Fraudster Finds Friends

For some people, enough is not enough .....

Cash Is King When Hiding Money ......

Richard Albert Cocks (Dickie Cocks?), a retired former Taxi driver, who lived in St Clements on the Island of Jersey is one such.

Half Forgotten - The Water Poet

The passing of the centuries can be cruel or kind to reputations .....

John Taylor "The Water Poet"

Take Elizabethan John Taylor .... Who? I almost hear you think.

Knife Kriminals

With the ever continuing rise in ethnic on ethnic murders (notwithstanding the BLM protests, which are aimed entirely at the wrong issues) ...,

Looks Like My Kitchen Drawers ..... Not Joking!

.... especially in London, where it seems to be linked to postcode gangs (just like the USA's gangs in fact) .... there is the ever more prevalent use of knives and bladed weapons in the attacks.

The Tale Of The Lonesome Pine

In 1882 or sometime shortly after that ....

This Old Lonesome Pine Could Tell A Story ...... A Cowboys Last Stand?

...... a cowboy, miner or trapper in the Great Basin Desert in the eastern part of Nevada, left his expensive Winchester rifle leaning against a 5,000-year-old, lonesome pine tree in a mountain forest ....

Bums Gold

Now I have heard of  fools gold ....

Golden Backsides Don't Guarantee Bums Gold

But not bums gold!

Buyer Beware

During the lock down, my interactions with a well known auction site increased considerably ....

On-Line Auction Site Has Seen A Lot Of Activity

.... mostly this has been odds and sods, or books, and the transactions have gone smoothly enough ... just one lost in the post (which I believed as the lady was upset about it).

Animals On Parade

These men were convicted and sentenced in December 2019 ... just before our judicial system ground to a halt ....

Animals On Parade ....Ali Sultan, Shafiq Younas, Amjad Hussain and Mohammad Rizwan

.... to between four and a half, and eight years in prison, for raping and prostituting young teens in Telford the early 2000's.