Soldier on leave party's

 

A young soldier on leave has been photographed dancing barefoot by a pool with other revelers and jumping in the pool fully clothed. The soldier in question has been working almost solidly for a whole year and has had just one weeks holiday in that time. He has crossed the Antarctic (or at least part of it) to help raise money for Help For Heroes and has, in addition to that kept up additional duties on the side throughout the year.

Nothing wrong with that do I hear you say? Well there shouldn’t be but as usual the soldier in question is being held to the ridged double standards that always apply where he and other members of his family are concerned. If it were any other soldier people would be saying how great it was to see him letting his hair down but of course it’s not! This soldier is Prince Harry and he of course, is not allowed to be ‘normal’, it makes me so cross! He serves with or forces and even if he’s not on the front lines he is doing the same service as any of the other soldiers currently not on the front lines but he also has to perform his royal duties and be extra careful in his ‘private’ life (and I use that term very loosely) watching everything he says, does and even wears, and all with that charming smile on his face, and yet any press coverage is always angled at sniping at the ‘childish antics’ of the Prince. Anyone who knows a young soldier knows that they work hard and play hard and rightly so!

For Gods sake let’s give the man a break! He is doing a fantastic job and should be allowed to let his hair down once in a while. 

Our wonderful justice systems strikes again!

 

While I deplore the actions of those who took part in the recent rioting that took place in various towns and cities across England, I cannot for the life of me figure out how it is right that a young man who stupidly acted on impulse was jailed for 16 months for stealing an ice cream, (read more: http://www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/7195758/the-danger-of-disproportionate-sentences.thtml) and an intelligent, adult couple get away with  a 9 month sentence for child cruelty and assault and a six-month jail sentence, suspended for 12 months, and a 100 hours of unpaid community work respectively, for subjecting (and allowing her to be subjected to) an eight year old child to extreme physical and mental abuse! Read more: (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2030631/Stepmother-starved-beat-girl-8-professor-husband-did-nothing.html#ixzz1WExiL8JL)

Don’t get me wrong, I was in London during the riots and I applaud the zero tolerance approach to the people who allowed themselves to be caught up in that madness but it cannot be right that sentences such as that stated are given to a young man who took an ice cream whilst these two people systematically abused a child of eight years old, ripped out chunks of hair, beat and starved her and in every way neglected her and all they get is that! It is deplorable! That poor child will probably suffer for the rest of her life in one way or another from the abuse she has endured and has even been separated from her brother as a result and her ‘parents’, and I use that term in it’s loosest possible sense, have basically been given a slap on the wrist and told not to do it again! How can this possibly be called justice?

If our courts are going to clamp down on crime and send a tougher message then surely this should be exactly the sort of crime that deserves real punishment!

Hurricane, Earthquakes and such.

 

I’m watching the various news reports and warnings going out across America and I’m thinking, wow, perhaps they did learn something from New Orleans. I’m hoping that all this preparation will mean that we do not end up hearing all the horror stories that came to light after the disaster in New Orleans and I’m desperately praying that ArchAngel Micheal will guard and guide those in danger.

I hope that the Americans can show the same restraint and dignity that we have seen from Japan in the aftermath of the recent disasters they have endured. The world could learn much from their responses to what happened there, the images of their people queuing patiently for food, helping their fellow man, and even the stories of the vast fortunes that have been handed in to the authorities from wallets, personal belongings and so on found in the rubble will surely go down in the annuls of history as examples of the best of mankind.

Please join me in praying to whatever deity you believe in that the impact will be as minimal as possible and that the emergency services and government officials etc; find the strength to do whatever is necessary to aid and support the American people in the path of this powerful hurricane at this time.

News snippets!

Just a few thoughts on the news from todays papers.

A new planet has been discovered that is carbon based and is basically a huge diamond in space. Makes the Koh-i-Noor diamond look like a discarded chipping if you ask me!

http://yhoo.it/rohJaY

I can’t help but wonder when will people learn not to put these events on Social Network pages, there are whole gangs combing them for places to descend on! http://bit.ly/rpQ7pB

http://bit.ly/rpQ7pB

www.dailymail.co.uk

Mother nature strikes again! My thoughts and support (all be it distance support and healing) go out to the 50 million people who will potentially be affected by the impending Hurricane. http://uk.news.yahoo.com/u-east-coast-irenes-path-scrambles-prepare-003433107.html

Angry!

I try to be a nice person, really I do but I am fast losing the ability to be nice when every time I get a minute to check in on Moria’s Place I have to deal with spammers!, I have been forced to have a ‘closed to non-members shoutbox’ and to remove the facility for ‘commenting’ on the items in the shop in order to prevent them from posting their, at best annoying, and at worst, illegal and disgusting messages. However it would appear that this is not enough, oh no!; I in my naivety thought that all spammers were automated but it would seem I’m wrong, they’ve taken to registering as members to enable them to post their unwanted rubbish! Why can’t they just pack it in!