thursdays with rowena

"A woman at work said that she wondered could the Chinese government be trying to reduce their population using the Corona Virus."
"Was she a coherent woman?"
"Kind of."
"I yield to no one in my gentle critiques of the Chinese government, particularly with regard to their enforced abortion practices with women forced to give birth without an anesthetic and the babies then drowned in a bucket, but I'd say the postulation by your work colleague is not credible."
"Another girl at work thought maybe the Chinese government wanted to wipe us out with Corona Virus."
"What sort of people are you working with? Are they all whey faced loons? That one's not credible either in my view."
"So what is your view?"
"Insufficient data to conclude. But I'll answer anyway. The whole thing is being talked up. Exaggerated out of all proportion. International Western media groups are doing it through laziness. Leading with the same story every night for months like they did when they were trying to hinder the British departure from the European Union. Sheer laziness. At the moment they're more or less reading out press releases from the World Health Organisation every night on the main evening news. This is very poor journalism. This story should be a tail ender on news broadcasts at best. And they should be asking what the precise death rates are. They should be considering whether any statistic coming out of China or produced by Pharmaceutical Company allied interests at the World Health Organisation, can be taken seriously. That's the key question. The World Health Organisation is initiating procedures frivolously because it can, and it doesn't really care about scare mongering as long as its own power is augmented. They'll end up mass slaughtering herds of animals with a justification purely based on hysteria. Mark my words. They'll start the same rubbish that they inflicted on the world in 2004 with their hyped up Bird Flu scare. They'll do it because they can. There may be a more malicious con job in the whole shenanigans vis a vis ye aformentioned large pharmaceutical companies benefiting exponentially from unnecessary compulsory public vaccination programmes."
"You don't think a vaccine is necessary?"
"I think a vaccine is coming and the profits will be guaranteed if it's compulsory or government sponsored. I am certainly concerned about Big Pharma being in bed with Big Government. The apparent death rate from this virus implies the whole thing is shenanigans. If you get rest, eat nutritious food, have a healthy spiritual life, take exercise, you will not die from the Corona Virus. If you're living in the Third World or a communist country, where you're forbidden to believe in God or you're forced to pretend to believe in the Islamic conception of God, and your personal freedoms are zero, and you're barely fed at all, there is every chance your government will claim you died of Corona Virus in order to get World Health Organisation funding and international aid ie dollar investments for whatever running around in circles fooboon policies these governments wish to pursue on a given day."
"You think the Corona Virus is fake?"
"No. I think it's not that big a story."
"What's a big story James? In your book?"
"Tonight the Syrian government have just blown up at least thirty Turkish soldiers who had invaded their territory. The Turks are retaliating. The Syrians intend to re establish their borders precisely where they were before their Civil War began 11 years ago. They have the Russians behind them so they're going to do it. It's hard to pick out heroes in the matter. But personally with regard to Syria, I'd let the Russians finish the job. Recip Tayip Erdogan's Muslim Brotherhood government in Turkey which sponsored the Isis and Al Qaeda franchises during the Syrian Civil War, has no business on Syrian territory. I'm no pal of the Assad family dictatorship in Syria or of their best pals the Iranian Mullahs and the Russian resovietising President Vladimir Putin. But former American President Barack Obama's ham fisted sponsorship of an Al Qaeda rebellion in Syria (He said he was sponsoring "Pro Western rebels.") contributed to a slow bleed with no side able to win, and has left us picking between least worst options. I'd let the Russians finish the job. Re establish sovereign Syrian territory just as it was in 2011. I'd let them do it. Because that's what the Russians are going to do whether we let them do it or not.  The Turks are angling for a Third World War. Nato should expel Turkey and soften their cough a bit. Bear in mind that Turkey is now threatening to collapse its borders with Europe in order to facilitate millions of Muslims who wish to enter Europe. European countries on the border with Turkey, should enforce their borders with Turkey themselves. That's what sovereign nations do. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Jorge Bergoglio who is currently Pope of the Catholic Church, should both be fired for creating the present free for all with regard to Muslims posing as refugees forcing their way into Europe. All of that. All of that is what I call a story. A big news story."

how many putins does it take to screw ireland into a sinn fein government

Coffee with the millionairess.
"I think it's a disgrace when people don't vote," quoth she.
"About forty percent of the Irish didn't vote," quoth me, "are they all a disgrace?"
"Yes," sex she.
"So there's no legitimate reason not to vote?" sez me.
"None," insisteth she.
"If the figure of people not voting rises to fifty one percent at the next election," sez me, "would you be inclined to recognise the majority of the electorate's democratically taken decision not to vote as itself a form of voting? They would then be the majority after all. And votes are supposed to be determined by majorities. What if the majority of us think the vote is rigged? Have any of us the right to turn our back on a jerrymandered electoral system? Is it not a legitimate critique of the political class, all of em, to withhold your vote? Are we not free to do with our vote what we wish?"
"Enough people fought long and hard, and enough people died to get us the vote. Everyone has a duty to vote. It's a disgrace when they don't." sez she.
"There's a disgrace there alright," I counter pleasantly, "but the disgrace is wholly with the IRA mafia, the abortionists and the jerrymanderers inside and outside parliament who have between them discredited democracy enough so that already forty percent of us refuse to vote for any of them."
"The disgrace belongs to those who stand on the sidelines and do nothing by not voting," she raps back.
"In the Iranian elections last week," I muse, "maybe eighty percent of the people didn't vote. Were they a disgrace too?"
She says: "I don't know anything about Iran. I'm just talking about Ireland."
"Iran is more or less the same as here," I explain coolly. "Corrupt political overclass using permanently contrived enmity with Britain, America and Israel as a way to distract the citizenry from the fact that they live in a miserable, anti life, hell hole dictatorship. The wheel is rigged and it's the only game in town."

wry ramblings

If God said to me: "Here's a wife and ten kids," I would rejoice.
If God said to me: "I have kept you for myself," I would rejoice just as truly.
Neither gift is less.
All his gifts are unlimited.
Whatever he gives is perfect.
As long as you believe in God.
There is nothing without an act of faith.

are you an eejit

(Take the Heelers Diaries quiz and find out.)

1. When flood plains on the river Shannon flood periodically, is the cause
(a) Climate Change.
(b) Flood plains flooding periodically because they're beside rivers and they're flood plains.

2. Were the Australian forest fires of the last twelve months caused by
(a) Climate Change.
(b) The arsonists, including at least two Firemen and several known Al Qaeda operatives, whom the Australians have caught starting the fires.

3. The sudden winning of 37 seats in Ireland's 160 seat parliament by Sinn Fein, party political proxies of the drug dealing, people trafficking, child abusing IRA mafia, was caused by
(a) Climate Change.
(b) A decisive voting bloc of half a million immigrants among Ireland's estimated three million electorate, trafficked to Ireland by the IRA along with two hundred thousand fraudulently registered ghost voters.

FIND OUT HOW YOU DID.
If you answered mostly a's, you're not an eejit. You're a complete ******* eejit.

gypsies tramps and star ship captains

I was born in a spin off from the original show
Initial reviews were a little bit slow
Mr Worf would do whatever he could
Shoot a little photons
Shed a couple quarts of Romulan blood

Gypsies, tramps and star ship captains
You'd them all the people of the villages called us
Gypsies, tramps and star ship captains
But every night when a star'd explode
Or a computer overload
They'd watch another episode

 Met a Hollywood Exec on a brief excursion
Said quit TV for a cinema version
I was 47, he was 93...
Took me up to Beverley Hills
And Shatner would have killed him if he'd seen the Deal

Gypsies, tramps, and Picards
That's what the people of the towns all called us
Gypsies, tramps and Picards
But every night when a star'd explode
Or a computer overload
They'd watch another episode

I never told my agent but he signed me up
With his smooth southern style
Six months later the movie's a flop
And I haven't seen him for a while
No I haven't him for a while
Oh no
Oh oh

She was born in a spin off from the original show
Chacotay used to pose for the money they'd throw
Seven Of Nine would do whatever she could
Flirting with the androids
Shed a couple quarts of Klingon blood

Janeways, Kirks and Picards
You'd hear them all the people of the towns they called us
Janeways, Kirks and Picards
But every night when a star'd explode
Or a computer overload
They'd watch another episode

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