Happy New Year 2023

 As is the tradition of this blog .....

Buster 31st December 1966

 

.... A British Comic cover from our childhood ......

Fat Phones - Thin Phones

 Someone somewhere must have asked the question .....

No Data Fat Phone - Data Full Thin Phone

..... 'Do devices USB drives get heavier when you store files and photos on them?' 

The True Heart Of Darkness

In the book, the heart of darkness was set in the Congo ...

The Heart Of Africa Faces A New Darkness

.... but, in reality the true hearts of darkness on that continent are wherever the Jihadi terrorists are operating.

Happy Christmas 2022

With most of the public sector on strike and demanding massive pay rises, while retaining their final salary pensions .....

Beano Xmas 1970

.... and with inflation going through the roof, with a lot of people huddling at home in three jumpers and under a pile of blankets .... it may not be the happiest of Christmases we have had in the UK, but hey, its another year gone by, and surely this will all pass some time.

Whats A Life Worth?

The value of a persons life can vary from place to place, time to time and circumstance to circumstances .... 

Whats The Value Life?

Of course in one sense, all life is precious, priceless in fact.

The Chinese Are Coming

Those Chinese 'private' state loans (from state owned companies) ......

The Chinese Are Coming .... To
A Neighbourhood Near You Soon!

...... that have brought a few Asian countries such as Sri Lanka to their knees, have also been quietly taking place in Europe's smaller economies.

Coco Nut

Brain damage can make people do funny things ....

Taking Tree Hugging To New Heights

Being hit over the head, by a man with a gun during a row, is perhaps more likely to bring on odd behaviour than not, if that's going to happen. 

New Barbarians

Berlin museums and galleries house and protects many great works from antiquity and the past ....

Reconstruction Of The Ishtar Gate of the ancient city of Babylon

.... but it struggles with protecting them from the new cultural barbarians who live inside its borders.

Oil And Gas - Putin's False Friends

Oil and gas fund up to 50% of the Russian annual budget income ...

To New Friends ....

 .... and so losing that income, should be a disaster for Putin;s government.

White Gate Boggarts

I once worked in the Fylde/Blackpool area of Northern England for a couple of years, and so got to know it quite well whilst I was staying in a boarding house for that time ....

I've Drunk In The No3 Pub In Blackpool

.... so when I saw a magazine reference to strange phenomena on a White Gate Lane in the Fylde, Lancashire, I was just curious enough to wonder if it was related to the Whitegate Drive that I did recall from those years ago.

Heaven or Death

In a little reported (well I didn't see it headlined), story at the time, in October 2018 President Putin of Russia reportedly said ......

Death Visits Kurgan ...

...... that in the face of foreign aggression to the motherland (Rodina) they would be met with nuclear war. 

Democracies Survival?

 A recent NPR/Ipsos poll found that 64% of Americans believe ....

Democracy At Risk?

.... US democracy is at risk of failing, and the fragility of America's democracy is what alarms foreign observers of the country. 

Fair Swap?

In the USA and the leftie woke press (like the BBC), the release of the previously largely unknown black lesbian basketball player Brittney Griner, in a prisoner swap, has been greeted as almost like the release of Nelson Mandela .....

Griner For Bout - A Fair Swap?

..... with almost minute by the minute reports of her progress westward.

Death Imitates TV

The popular TV show CSI Las Vegas in which crime scene investigators / scientists solve crimes that would take many weeks or months .... inside an hour (TV time 24 hours ... max!) .... 

A Suspicious Death In Florida
 ... CSI On The Case

.... is believed to have inspired at least two real life crimes. 

The Money Pot

We have often laughed at the gullibility of the religious on this blog ....

The Gullibility Spot Has Been Identified

 ..... from Christians who believe that some sexual pervert or paedophile is some sort of a messiah, to South Asians who believe in magic lamps (and all other religions in between).

Political And State Covid Death Rates USA

With the USA officially declaring that it has had a death toll from Covid-19 exceeding one million ....

Political And State Covid Death Rates USA

.... and the fact that we are all (apart from China) learning to live with Covid (with deaths still occurring, its interesting to compare the US political map, with the official US Covid death rates.