It would appear that eating chocolate is good for you. Wow.
A study of nearly 50,000 people found that those eating chocolate were 22 per cent less likely to suffer a stroke than those that didn't.
And those who did suffer a stroke but had indulged in chocolate were 46 per cent less likely to die as a result.
Well I never.
Still I'm sure that the fat police will come up with some refutation in due course.
H/T to the Torygraph
I'm really fed up with the way they are determined to take all pleasure out of living. The latest shite about to be pedaled.
Well another single malt is called for. It might ease the pain of watching that crap.
H/T to Dick Puddlecote
Since we had this latest round of Global warming last month, I've had their website tabbed in my Browser. I also have another site called meteox tabbed. Meteox streams ahead for 3 hours and gives a good picture of the weather patterns coming in.
Last night the Met Office was predicting that there would be a yellow level of snow in Kent by Midday today.
This morning at nine O'clock the warning had changed to orange, predicting significant levels of snow.
At ten O'clock the sun was out. Not a cloud to be seen.
At 12 O'clock, the met Office site had suddenly changed to green.
Now I'd been comparing the Met Office data to Meteox and could see that there was no cloud coming towards Kent all morning.
It would seem that the Met office cannot even predict the forecast 3 hours in advance. Are their pine cones defunct? or do they just look out of the window?
If they can't get it right for 3 hours, how can they predict the next 50 years?
Seeing as it only cost £25,000 to make, it's not bad.
She didn't have Peter Jackson's £200million budget, eight years of filming time or the spectacular scenery of New Zealand to work with.
But Kate Madison could match his boundless passion - and with it managed to make her own Lord Of The Rings film.
The amateur actress was so inspired by the blockbuster Rings trilogy created by Jackson she wrote, directed and produced a prequel based on material from the original JRR Tolkien books.
We all knew it would happen. The Olympic delivery Authority And that's a new speak of the modern age, if ever I heard one.)
It would appear that the cost of the Olympic Games in London is going to cost overrun again.
The Government faces the prospect of having to raid its dwindling Olympic contingency fund yet again, with officials announcing further cost increases yesterday in the delivery of the 2012 Games.
The Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) warned that the next 12 months would be the toughest yet as the pace of construction accelerated to meet venue completion deadlines in early 2011.
The authority, which is responsible for the infrastructure at the Games, disclosed that its costs had increased by £21 million in the past quarter.
The Millennium dome all over again. Just at the time that we are broke. Why is it that all we see is open ended contracts by Government departments? The average citizen having the plumber in, would never be held to ransom like these fuckwits in Governments.
Why don't we just give the contractors a blank cheque at the start?
A former NASA contractor whose theory demonstrating that the greenhouse effect is constant and self-regulating and that increases in human CO2 emissions are not the source of global warming is fighting an uphill battle to publish his controversial work.
Developed by prominent atmospheric physicist Dr. Ferenc Miskolczi, the new theory is enormously significant because it demolishes the prevailing doctrine of anthropogenic greenhouse warming (AGW), which blames humans for pumping CO2 into the atmosphere and triggering runaway global warming that could eventually lead to catastrophic climate change.
I must admit that I hadn't heard of this man before today. However the story makes interesting and disturbing reading.
Miskolczi’s research was greeted less than cordially by his bosses. After submitting his results to Applied Optics, a respected peer-review journal, he was told to withdraw the paper by his employer, Analytical Services and Materials, a NASA contractor. When he protested (the paper was midway through the review process), his boss withdrew it. He later confronted his NASA supervisor, Dr. Martin Mlynczak, and was simply ignored, he says.
The full study is reproduced here.
While perusing some of the review comments to the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report, I came across the contributions of Andrew Lacis, a colleague of James Hansen’s at GISS. Lacis’s is not a name I’ve come across before but some of what he has to say about Chapter 9 of the IPCC’s report is simply breathtaking…
Remember, this guy is mainstream, not a sceptic, and you may need to remind yourself of that fact several times as you read through his comment on the executive summary of the chapter:
Here's what he wrote:
There is no scientific merit to be found in the Executive Summary. The presentation sounds like something put together by Greenpeace activists and their legal department. The points being made are made arbitrarily with legal sounding caveats without having established any foundation or basis in fact. The Executive Summary seems to be a political statement that is only designed to annoy greenhouse skeptics. Wasn’t the IPCC Assessment Report intended to be a scientific document that would merit solid backing from the climate science community – instead of forcing many climate scientists into having to agree with greenhouse skeptic criticisms that this is indeed a report with a clear and obvious political agenda. Attribution can not happen until understanding has been clearly demonstrated. Once the facts of climate change have been established and understood, attribution will become self-evident to all. The Executive Summary as it stands is beyond redemption and should simply be deleted.
And what did they do with this review? You guessed it. They rejected it.
Well at least one of them.
An eight-year-old Beano fan has made a stand against PC killjoys who made his hero Dennis the Menace too nice.
Jacob Rush pleaded with the comic's bosses to return the spiky-haired character to his former naughty best after he was turned into a bit of a softy.
It's about time that someone actively complained about the Nanny state. It's a shame it has to be an eight year though. Of course he can't be prosecuted for inciting violence or hate crime.
Jacob, from Ipswich, Suffolk, said: ‘I don't like Dennis because he doesn't have his catapult or water pistol any more and he's not menacing enough - I want the old Dennis back.
The BBC makeover saw Dennis transformed into a politically correct shadow of his former self.
Personally I would like to see a grown up Dennis gunning down the Editorial board at the BBC, with an AK47 assault rifle. That's just my opinion.
This has partially brightened my day up.
Legal aid bosses have seized the house belonging to radical cleric Abu Hamza to pay off some of his defence costs.
The Legal Services Commission appropriated the property in Greenford, west London, despite Hamza claiming it did not belong to him.
It will now be sold in an attempt to pay off some of the £300,000 of taxpayers' money spent on his legal bills. Officials hope to raise £280,000 from the sale.
Of course it would make my day if he lost his appeal against extradition to the USA.
