Fed Up With Everything

These are a few shorts ... linked by themes to earlier posts.

American Thunderbirds

A while ago I wrote about American Thunderbirds (amongst other creatures), being apparently killed and photographed during the US Civil War. I duly posted some pictures (which I had cleaned a little bit), but remarked that one was an admitted fake, while another was very similar and that was obviously a fake, and finally one that, if not a fake, was just a trick of the light and backdrop causing it to look like something other than what is was, which was a vulture.

Another Thunderbird Picture ....

Beauty Is In The Eye Of The Beholder

Some social scientists working for the think tank ResPublica, are suggesting that unless you have a household income of £41,000pa, you can't enjoy or access beauty. 

 

Free Beauty - Kelvin Museum Glasgow

That those in social housing, are somehow unable to see a tree, visit a museum, walk to a park, or get a bus to a beauty spot .... in fact, that they are unable to appreciate beauty through lack of money ..... I have never read such claptrap in my entire life.

 

Talking Turkey

Turkey is a land where one man, one vote, and one law prevails, and that one man is President Recep Tayyip Erdogan .... increasingly looking like a despot in any language.

Talking Turkey .... Its All The Rage

 

I say this following the news that twelve academics in Turkey have been arrested for denouncing military operations against Kurdish rebels in the south-east, with police still processing paperwork against nine other academics who also face arrest. The academics are being charged with violating the controversial Article 301 of the Turkish Penal Code, Hurriyet newspaper reported, by which it is illegal to insult the institutions of the Turkish nation.

 

Writing Wrongs

This week I have felt the need to write to my local MP (member of parliament), over my concerns regarding the local rail transport system (again).

Keep Your Representative On Their Toes ....

 

I did so despite knowing that our views differ greatly on this subject, as this is not the first time I have contacted my MP on the matter, nor will it be the last time I suspect.

Any Excuse Will Do

So having difficulties with reading, writing and telling the time is now an acceptable reason to win an employment 'disability discrimination' case in the UK.

'Dsylesxia', 'Dyslexia'' ... Just An Excuse?

 

A claim to be, or have 'Dsylesxia', 'Dyslexia', a condition which frankly is often an excuse for an awful lot of stupidity, has now been accepted as a good reason for making mistakes and not being down graded at work.