The Sign Of The Cross

...but not as grim as when the Tories and their sidekicks release their plans to skewer the poor.

via mirror.co.uk There really is no excuse for this, and no excuse for not turning him in. Someone, somewhere knows who he is.

Excellent!

via throughthescarydoor.blogspot.com That did give me a chuckle that did!

Not the ConDems new industrial relations policy but something equally as vile. Seems their latest plan to make the innocent pay for the sins of the capitalists in this new proposed 'Three Strikes and you're out' policy. Basically it's Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith planning to impose a ‘three strikes and you’re out’ rule that will remove benefits for three years from anyone caught trying to defraud the welfare state more than three times. I actually think that the three strikes bit means something different, more along the lines of; Strike 1 - involves the welfare state so despised by Daily Mail readers Strike 2 - involves assorted ne'erdowells, single mums, wayward fathers, disabled people, Johnny Foreigner types, the type of people that Daily Mail readers assume are sponging off the state Strike 3 - involves extra-judicial punishment to teach the rotters a lesson that the Daily Mail readers would approve of How can the ConDems go wrong wit...

Thank you posterous, 30 minutes spent writing a post only to find out your sodding editor doesn't work in Opera.

We shall see how this goes down this morning. Just me on guitar and hopefully someone else on the jemba!

   (11440 KB) Listen on posterous I have to say that it is incredibly east to get content into Posterous!

As the first decade of the new millennium is coming to an end, the Pentecostal movement is entering into a new phase in her developments: the Reformation Era in Pentecostalism.  This is an era of self-evaluating, self-awakening and reforming the Pentecostal movement as it is going on now. The Pentecostal Movement with its branches and side branches needs a reformation and a re-intervention on specific areas where things have been going out of hand or in areas that have been neglected. via web.me.com Any Pentecostal Reformation is long overdue.

Since 2006, 20 to 40 percent of the bee colonies in the United States alone have suffered “colony collapse.” Suspected culprits ranged from pesticides to genetically modified food. Now, a unique partnership — of military scientists and entomologists — appears to have achieved a major breakthrough: identifying a new suspect, or two. A fungus tag-teaming with a virus have apparently interacted to cause the problem, according to a paper by Army scientists in Maryland and bee experts in Montana in the online science journal PLoS One . Exactly how that combination kills bees remains uncertain, the scientists said — a subject for the next round of research. But there are solid clues: both the virus and the fungus proliferate in cool, damp weather, and both do their dirty work in the bee gut, suggesting that insect nutrition is somehow compromised. Liaisons between the military and academia are nothing new, of course. World War II, perhaps the most profound...

via youtube.com I still have the 12" of this squirreled away somewhere. I should dust it off and play it for Cameron. Here we go "Wee'ere all in it together!" Well I would but I don't have a record player so the Youtube video will have to do.

via youtube.com I still have the 12" of this squirreled away somewhere. I should dust it off and play it for Cameron. Here we go "Wee'ere all in it together!" Well I would but I don't have a record player so the Youtube video will have to do.

But there is another issue here and it is this: the more debt you are in, the more you are beholden to this consumerist culture. The more you have a stake in this tottering tower of interdependent debt, the more your interests lie in propping it up. I'm not underestimating here the power and the potential of debt. Nor am I denying that I have debts of my own! I'm simply questioning the probity of the conditions which its preponderance creates. via thesensiblebond.blogspot.com Ches has sussed why any transition away from capitalism seems to be becoming more and more difficult

via socialistunity.com Oh dear Nick, that's not good now is it?

I came across the import function on Posterous while having a look round to see how things work. Seemed a simple process, type in the web address for your blog, be it WP, Blogger and others, click the button and away it goes. Ten minutes later all my posts had been imported into Posterous. Job done. It's made a good job of importing as well. Text, images and multimedia has been brought across and ispresented nicely. The only issue I had is that any script from Zemanta is left displayed as text at the bottom of the post. Aside from that, a job donefrom Posterous.

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I've been having a rummage at convenient ways to add content to my online presence. I had my blogs, my twitter account, my picasaweb account and others. Then I came across Tumblr and Posterous. Both seemed to do very similar things but there were a number of things that made me decide to use Posterous. First off, Tumblr is extremely clunky when using Icecat on my Zenwalk laptop. It's not a problem exclusive to Tumblr but any application that relies too much on Javascript, or too much of the wrong type of Javascript ends up this way on my laptop. Secondly Posterous can cross-post to wherever I want. So it's going to my blogs, image repositores and Youtube account where appropriate. And Psterous will also reformat stuff to fit wherever it's being sent. This is a serious timesaver. Thirdly Posterous seems much more 'natural' to use than Tumblr. I really struggled making head or tail of using Tumble. Some have commented that Posterous has been 'engineere...

In memory of Pastor Solomon Burke here is the man himself singing one of my favourites - None Of Us Are Free RIP Solomon Sent from my Nokia phone

Well they could be? Sent from my Nokia phone See and download the full gallery on posterous

Emmanuel Bankole brings the word at Runnymede Christian Fellowship at Egham in Surrey. If you're around Egham on a Sunday morning then please do consider visiting us! Sent from my Nokia phone via posterous just to check and see if it's working.

Have the Catholics been feeling left out with the recent Methodist legal action mentioned in my previous post ? Seems there's moves afoot for a bit of priest-on-priest court action in the pipeline! What in God's name is happening to our churches? We're meant to be in the world, not taking on the character of the world. All we need now to finish the show is for the Archbishop of Canterbury to slap a writ on Desmond Tutu's birthday cake. Happy birthday to Desmond tutu!

Image via Wikipedia I don't know about you but I used to have an impression that the Methodist church in the UK was a denomination typified by being very, very nice people. The sort who wouldn't say boo to a goose yet would give you their last penny to the homeless if needed. In fact a church that I would have passed over if looking for a bit more get up and go, so to say. Looking a bit closer into their workings and teachings I see a much deeper Christian church which is highly concerned with the social gospel and a church that does speak and act louder than maybe their numbers would suggest. A church hidden from my view by my own ignorance I would suggest. So I'm surprised to see signs of discord within the Methodist church over a resolution adopted by conference regarding the issue of the Occupied Territories and Illegal Settlements. You can read the resolution over at the Connexions blog by Richard Hall, a Methodist minister. The resolution is hardly inflammator...