http://www.blueidea.co.uk A Conservative-supporting thinking blog. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:45:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well, that's what they are saying. Along with eating red meat [so they want you be a vegetarian], any extra salt intake, and drinking sugary drinks [which presumably includes fruit smoothies?].Frankly, it's all a load of bollocks.One report says "don't do (a)", another says "don't do (b), but do do ... http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2007/10/drink-alcohol-get-cancer.html I dislike trick-or-treaters. It is a crass American invention which has moved over here. Besides, any sweets I have are for me, not any annoying kids! http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2007/10/all-hallows-eve.html Well, my kind of Bible: http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2007/10/the-bible.html "Dog bites man" isn't news. "Man bites dog" is. But where does dog shoots man fit in?A man out hunting in Iowa was shot in the leg after a hunting dog stepped on his gun, authorities said.The accident happened after James Harris, 37, put his gun on the ground to ... http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2007/10/959.html This is fantastic news:Talks on funding political parties have effectively broken down after 18 months of negotiations.The Conservatives and Labour have been unable to agree on setting limits on campaign spending and on donations. (BBC)Good! Political parties should certainly not get any more money from the taxpayer. Short and Cranbourne ... http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2007/10/parties-cant-decide-how-to-divvy-up-our-money.html More than half of new jobs created in the last decade have gone to immigrants. I have no problem with the immigrants coming in and working. They are coming here and doing the jobs which are available, helping our economy expand.But I do have a problem with the millions of ... http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2007/10/working-immigrants-and-lazy-arse-britons.html Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has apologised for misleading the British people:Of course it is bad that these figures are wrong and ministers have apologised for that, I am sorry about that.But the important point is that actually there are 2.7 million more jobs in this country than there were in ... http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2007/10/jacqui-smith-says-sorry.html The Last Supper, now viewable in sixteen billion pixels. Yes, sixteen billion! You can zoom right up as if you were just a few centimetres from the painting itself. http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2007/10/16-billion-pixels.html The prize for the most stupid sentence I have read today goes to:... freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority ... http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2007/10/quotes-of-the-day.html Tut, tut, tut, 18 Doughty Street! Really, I expected better. I'd have certainly thought that a political TV station would know the correct plural for MPs. Beware the greengrocers' apostrophe!I look forward to hearing a public correction live on air during Blogger TV tonight. ;-)Click to enlargeNote: If you're ... http://www.blueidea.co.uk/2007/10/beware-the-grocers-apostrophe.html