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sees all other religions as false and worshiping the Devil, Satan, Shaitan, Beelzebub, Lord of the flies etc, etc.
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Would you believe it! Fundamentalist US Christians are funding, for our UK Gov’t to be lo be lobbied by deeply committed Christians who are no different from Enoch Powell.
Islam and the babies they produce is the the enemy!
In this instance it’s the embryo bill
Didn’t Herod try that trick of killing all the babies, yet, it didn’t work so why won’t we learn.
© of Winslie Gomez
Watched Sting on Jonathon Woss, (sorry Ross) last night. No idea what channel, just happened to sit down with a glass of Rioja. The interview was a good bit of banter, Woss Style.
It’s the song ” Shape of My Heart” that got my attention.
The chord phrasing was just beautiful. Like the repetitive sound of gentle lapping at the waters edge of a Scottish Loch, surrounded by granite hills and of course, “.. a loaf of bread and thou beside me” borrowed from;
Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,
A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse–and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness–
And Wilderness is Paradise enow.
“How sweet is mortal Sovranty!”–think some:
Others–”How blest the Paradise to come!”
Ah, take the Cash in hand and waive the Rest;
Oh, the brave music of a distant Drum!
– Omar Khayyam
You may not know that Sting used to be a maths teacher and the words of the song reflect that magical alchemy of numbers and the illusion of life. No wonder it was covered by so many others from Back Street Boys to Sugababes etc.
Watch the video, courtesy of Newplayrock. And Wow! Thank You.
STING Sings
“Shape Of My Heart”
He deals the cards, as a meditation
And those he plays, never suspect
He doesn’t play, for the money he wins
He don’t play for respect
He deals the cards, to find the answer
The sacred geometry of chance
The hidden laws of a probable outcome
The numbers lead a dance
I know that the spades are the swords of a soldier
I know that the clubs, weapons of war
I know that diamonds mean money for this art
But that’s not the shape of my heart
He may play the jack of diamonds
He may lay the queen of spades
He may conceal, a king in his hand
While the memory of it fades
I know that the spades are the swords of a soldier
I know that the clubs weapons of war
I know that diamonds mean money for this art
But that’s not the shape of my heart
That’s not the shape, the shape of my heart
And if I told you that I loved you
You’d maybe think there’s something wrong
I’m not a man of too many faces
The mask I wear is one
For those who speak know nothing
But find out to their cost
Like those who curse their luck in too many places
And those who fear are lost
I know that the spades are the swords of a soldier
I know that the clubs are weapons of war
I know that diamonds mean money for this art
But that’s not the shape of my heart
That’s not the shape of my heart
More STING related info here
© of Winslie Gomez.
Once upon a time, the only thing that could spoil your holiday abroad was the airline, airport, crap hotel, the service or lack-of, hire cars that broke down, bad food and getting ill; I mean very ill, getting drunk, losing your wallet-passport-camera-ipod and worse still, getting arrested for being a prat.
Of course you have to face the usual cons and fakes, from artists to souvenirs, crooked cops, pedlars and pimps. But you would never imagine that a Government official as in Goa, India would actually warn “foreign tourists” especially when 60% of their economy is tourist related.
“Foreign tourists have to be careful,” he said. “They can’t just do these things and then blame the government for the consequences. You can’t expect the government to provide police on the beaches after midnight.” He warned foreign women in Goa to avoid “insecure places” and to take “precautions”, while declining to define either term.” Timesonline
Is Digambar Kamat, Chief Minister of the Indian state of Goa, misunderstood?
From a UK, perspective his words sound ridiculous!
However, in the Indian context, his words of warning probably would be no different to the average Indian tourist to his State.
Is the morality of the shack worker to be equated with that of either the Chief Minister or the whole State of Goa?
The case of Scarlett Keeling and her tragic death has exposed the grim truth about life-after-sunset, on the once idyllic paradise that was, the beaches of Goa.
Fiona McKeown as the mother, has come in for her fair share of criticisms. However she faces an uphill struggle in being able to understand the Indian psyche and the political machinery at work.The missing internal organs of her daughter are only a fraction of the problem at hand.
Timesonline has interesting observations and questions:
[T]he problem for Goa is the same as the difficulty faced by other tourist destinations “discovered” by the young and the adventurous and trading on their fashionable, hippy associations. Ibiza, Bali, The Gambia and parts of Thailand are all places where the prevailing hedonism attracts a large number of free-spending tourists but runs counter to the more conservative views and mores of the host country. Entrepreneurs who have invested in the bars, clubs, pools and hotels that bring in the tourists are keen to encourage a lively reputation in the West. That same reputation, however, can cause resentment, disdain and confusion to the very people working in these resorts. A clash of assumptions can have dangerous consequences.
Such clashes have been increasing in Goa as the tourist numbers rise. The Indian media have reported 27 deaths of foreigners already this year,…..
This story is going to rumble on for a while yet and many a head will roll, eventually!
Might as well be a BJ for a wank.
Who gives a rats arse about LONDON, anyway, apart from the filthy rich, pretentious oil rich, Arabs or the Russian Mafia? Even the Triads don’t get a sniff, they have to move out to the provinces.
The place stinks! of body odour and stale take away meals. Your hair feels like like some dosser puked on it and your clothes smell like a B movie.
Don’t give me a parking ticket! I refuse to pay and I’m off to Barbados!
G’d Bye
Obama inspires as a bridge buider.
Muticultarism has almost, become a swear word for both sides of the divide.
Take KSA (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia).
Could the presence of American soldiers drive indegenous Saudis towards fundamentalist Islam?
“The current position of Canada’s cultural personality is a very argumentative topic. Is our country a melting pot or is it a tossed salad? “Canada has never been a melting pot, more like a tossed salad.” (Arnold Edinborough) Canadians are more subdued than those of other countries and choose not to show pride on their sleeve. As well, many of the older country immigrants have not adopted the Canadian way of life, and, along with numerous other Canadian immigrants prefer to keep their own identity. However, is this cause to classify us as a tossed salad and mould our country into a less integrated society? The United States have been categorized as “the great melting pot of humanity”, where individuals of all nations are invited to join the country to form “a more perfect nation”. In this “perfect nation” everyone is required to follow common community standards in an attempt to strengthen the country. However, individuals who become Canadian citizens are encouraged to maintain their cultural identities, complete with customs, languages, and traditions, causing Canada to often be referred to as a mosaic. “Canadians…linked to think of their country as a mosaic rather than melting pot.” (Kenneth McNaught) For example, in Nunuvat the primary language is Inuitituk with secondary services available to individuals in English. Enhancing, preserving, and sharing Canada’s multiple cultures is a subject that all Canadian citizens greatly value, and could be considered a reason as to why Canada is regarded as one of the most prominent countries in the world.” Source
….Multiculturalists dismiss the significance of Western civilization by claiming that Western traditions of elitism, racism, and sexism are the cause of most of our current problems. They accept a Romantic view of human nature as beneficent and benign until it was corrupted by flawed Western ideology and culture.
Multiculturalism implies that race, ethnicity, and sex (or sexual preference) have an inescapable effect on the way people think and/or the values they hold or are capable of holding. There are many closed systems of perception, thought, and feeling each affiliated with some biologically defined group.
Several voices suggest that the Rev Wright falls into the victim-propagation-strategy.
…The victim mentality is both a cause and effect of multiculturalism. Multiculturalism promotes a culture of victims who have a perpetual claim on society and the government. The result is the division of society into political interest groups with conflicting demands that cannot all be met. Source
Well, think about it. What is Rev. Wright’s, and an entire generation of “civil rights” leaders’, bread and butter? Conflict between minority Americans and majority (white) Americans. The “us vs. them” mentality. As long as minorities think they’re members of an oppressed victim class they’ll flock to people like Rev. Wright, and Wright profits
Pickled politics has a reasoned argument and as he says “head hurt” from a UK perspective. Please read the whole article to get the correct point of view, rather than my randomly selected quotes.
…This is what made Martin Luther King so compelling. He spoke of black people lifting themselves, not by denigrating white people but by speaking to both communities in a language whites and blacks could identify with. We have a modern Martin Luther King in the form of Barack Obama, but he’s being dragged down by the us versus them politics that has become so ingrained.
…Britain has its own Wright in the form of Dr Mohammad Naseem, chairman of Birmingham mosque, who infamously refused to believe 7/7 could have been the work of British Muslims and claimed the videotape by Mohammad Sidique Khan was doctored.
…It’s too easy to slice and dice quotes from Wright and Naseem and paint them as nutters without bothering to pay any attention to what they were saying. A modern media environment that thrives on sensationalism only makes this worse.
Wright should have kept his mouth shut but instead, as Michael Tomasky pointed out, he needs to re-affirm his righteous view that America is too racist to elect a black president. And there’s nothing more annoying than being a called a sellout/dhimmi/wet-liberal when you’re trying to build bridges.
I am multicultural from birth with experience and understandinmg of the dialectic
