Snow White.
You know you really should have gone on the pill. And send that lazy Prince out to work.
Thursday, 8 July 2010
Teachers
WTF is a Flexible Learning Space? I'm sure in my day they were called Classrooms.
I've just been listening to some teaching Biddy banging on about how her school needs new buildings. She's bemoaning the fact that the buildings were only built with a shelf life of 25 years and Oh dear, they've lasted for 40.
Shut up you old Harridan. We've no money.
Oh and now they are banging on about obesity.
I think I'll go and lie down in a darkened room.
Wednesday, 7 July 2010
Oooh err
I Think I've got blogger's cramp. My fingers are not doing what they are supposed to do on the keybourd.
Or could it be the demon drink that has demonically take my blogging soul tonight.
I don't think I'll go to the USA.
These are some of the questions you'll be asked when you go to get a visa.
- Are you coming to the United States to engage in prostitution or unlawful commercialized vice or have you been engaged in prostitution or procuring prostitutes within the past 10 years?
- Have you ever been involved in, or do you seek to engage in, money laundering?
- Do you have a mental or physical disorder that poses or is likely to pose a threat to the safety or welfare of yourself or others?
- Do you seek to engage in espionage, sabotage, export control violations, or any other illegal activity while in the United States?
- Do you seek to engage in terrorist activities while in the United States or have you ever engaged in terrorist activities?
- Have you, while serving as a government official, been responsible for or directly carried out, at any time, particularly severe violations of religious freedom?
- Have you committed, ordered, incited, assisted, or otherwise participated in extrajudicial killings, political killings, or other acts of violence?
- Have you ever committed, ordered, incited, assisted, or otherwise participated in torture?
- Have you ever ordered, incited, committed, assisted, or otherwise participated in genocide?
- Have you ever or do you intend to provide financial assistance or other support to terrorists or terrorist organizations?
What is the point of asking these questions? If you're a terrorist or other criminal you're hardly likely to say Yes. Are you?
Grrrrh
Don't you hate holidays. At least the booking of them. I'd arranged for ten of us to travel to Lake Garda for a wedding this month. After the wedding we were all going to split up and go our separate ways. (FE and his wife are going on to Rome as we've never been there). All parties were asked to book their own travel arrangements after the Lake Garda stay. Simple.
Oh Noes.
One party forgot.
FE has spent the last hour trying to extend their stay till the party's flight date. God knows what my phone bill will be after an hour on the phone, ringing Italian hotels. The upside is that my Italian is a tad better than it was an hour ago.
Tuesday, 6 July 2010
The whining goes on.
Schools this time.
Headteachers condemned “devastating” spending cuts today after the Government axed plans to rebuild 170 run-down secondaries in London.
Teachers warned that children would be left in “Dickensian” conditions in crumbling classrooms while fears grew that the construction industry would also be devastated by the cuts.
Two pleas used there. Dickensian and the Construction Industry.
Now your Blog Host had to put up with far worse when he went to school.
Our sleeping quarters were onboard a rusting hulk moored in the middle of a river. The roof beneath which we slept was made of corrugated tin with no insulation and wasn't particularly waterproof.
Pic: HMS Gannet as restored in Chatham Dockyard
To get to breakfast and the school buildings we had to row ashore in a leaky old boat. If it rained, tough titty.
And believe it or not my parents paid for me to live in conditions that would have your average member of the prison population, in full scale riot.
Sir William Atkinson, head of Phoenix High School in Shepherd's Bush, said: “It is devastating news.” He added that children faced an unfair, “two-speed” education system with some pupils in dazzling new facilities while others were condemned to “antiquated, inadequate buildings”.
It's not the quality of the bricks and mortar that count. It's the standard of teaching and discipline that's important. And that seems to be sadly lacking these days.
Monday, 5 July 2010
Another fake charity
I'm quite happy to donate to charity if I so desire. But why should the government donate for me without my permission?
Here's another example of the last government trying to hide their agenda by paying a fake charity to act to support their Multi-Culti social experiment. The ConLib coalition needs to stop this sort of funding now.
British Refugee Council
UK Charity Number: 1014576
Website: www.refugeecouncil.org.uk
Stated Aims
THE REFUGEE COUNCIL'S FOUR MAJOR AREAS OF ACTIVITY ARE ASYLUM SUPPORT AND REFUGEE INTEGRATION, CAMPAIGNING AND POLICY, EDUCATION AND TRAINING, AND CAPACITY BUILDING
Summary
The British Refugee Council currently campaigns for failed asylum seekers/illegal immigrants to receive state benefits and to be given the right to work. As a member of the Get Fair coalition, it calls for the government to spend a further £4 billion on benefits and an increase in benefits for jobseekers and asylum seekers.
Failed asylum seekers/illegal immigrants to get benefits? Surely a plane ticket is all that should be paid for? And to be repaid.
Details
Its 2007/08 accounts show a total income of £18,820,000, of which:
- Border & Immigration Agency: £12,881,000
- Leeds City Council: £221,000
- Barnsley City Council: £175,000
- Norfolk County Council: £138,000
- Dept. of Health: £50,000
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- Total £13,465,000 (71.5% of all income)
It received a further £163,000 from the Lottery.
This gravy train is firmly welded to the platform.
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