Scientology exposed

I can't say that I have ever seen Boston legal before but I do like this one. Then again Scientologists are a bunch of gullbile arseholes (and many other religions provide some stiff competition!)

Given the level of farting in this household we must be Operating Thetans by now,

Given the vile stench of a Boris fart I am sure he must have some pretty nasty engrams inside him!

Solitary Tree

Dryad

Dryad found on a Black Poplar, the Chase, Dagenham

Blurred trees

Protests return to Iran

Following uprisings that have toppled governments in Tunisia and Egypt, protests in Algeria. Yemen and Bahrain, protestors are back on the streets of Tehran.

The protests were met with the usual lack of restraint that is the hallmark of Iranian security forces. One student has been killed (perhaps a second student too).

Opposition leaders, Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi are believed to be under house arrest while Iranian MPs are reported to be screaming for their execution.

It remains to be seen whether these protsts can snowball into regime change. It is my earnest hope that it does. However, the Revolutionary Guard here are not going to throw their lot in with the protestors, given their vested interests in the national economy.

If the protests continue there will be a lot more blood and more than a few new Neda Agha Soltanis created...

I wonder if Galloway, Milne et al will see the light and support the Iranians on the street this time... or will pigs fly?

Clouds across the moon…

Gavin Pretor-Pinney is not a name that will be familiar to millions but new released by NASA recently will almost certainly delight him.

Mr Proctor-Pinney is the founder of the wonderful group the Cloud Appreciation Society/ The news from NASA concerns the discovery of Cirrus-like clouds on Titan

According to Discoveryon The Cassini spacecraft has recorded thin, wispy clouds of ice particles on the Saturn moon, Titan, that are similar to cirrus clouds. The discovery was made using Cassini’s Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS).


“This is the first time we have been able to get details about these clouds. Previously, we had a lot of information about the gases in Titan’s atmosphere but not much about the [high-altitude] clouds,” said Robert Samuelson at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.

The discovery will, I’m sure, provide a valuable insight into the atmospheric cycles on Titan. Some day climate scientists will undertake research from Titan itself.

Me, I love the idea of that people will look up from an alien surface and see wispy earth-like clouds…

More Black Poplars

Bah still feeling like crap definitely off for the night now

Bah!

More conection problems and I'm feeling like shit. Back tomorrow...

Black poplars

Populus nigra at the Chase, Dagenham

Tory Peer rightly reminds us of our place

When Ian Lang was last forced to sit next to an oik

Ian Lang was once a cabinet minister, serving with distinction under John Major, inarguably Britain’s greatest ever Prime Minister. When Major was soundly defeated in 1997 and Master Lang was ejected from his safe Scottish seat by the New Labour hordes, it felt as if part of my childhood had died.

Mercifully Master Lang was not forgotten: He was made a life peer and has since been entrusted with an important post, that of Chairman of the Advisory Committee on Business.

Along with three other peers, two knights and a dame Master Lang is responsible for examining applications from the most senior public servants who wish to take up outside appointments after they leave their previous service. They also advise on posts taken up by former ministers.

Master Lang has come under pressure from the ignorant and unworthy to admit lay members fro the lower orders of society. However, he has rightly and steadfastly resisted such a move.

Lord Lang told MPs he would “rather die in a ditch than share a committee room with some ghastly little oik like a waitress or bus driver."

The Commons Public Administration Committee, which is looking into the employment of former ministers in big business, received his comments well. Paul Flynn MP said: "Speaking as a bus driver of long standing who married a waitress, neither I nor my wife could ever hope to make a contribution to your committee"

I agree wholeheartedly. How could anyone who had not been born to the great and/or god ever hope to understand the complex issues that Master Lang grasps with consummate ease.

I for one know my place and will continue to tug my forelock when the squire rides by my hovel…