The Daily Gaggle

       I am writing this simply because My doctor reads my blog occasionally or so he tells me. Previous to the day of  my appointment last Friday at 1140AM I had been feeling an occasional pain below my upper left rib  for several days,. However, the morning of my appointment I was feeling great no worries - so instead of a three minute walk to the Doctor we took the car thinking we would go  shopping after seeing the Doc but a delivery truck was parked across our drive so we were eventually five Min's late for our appointment. (on arrival normally one waits about a half hour or more to actually see the Doc) I gave the receptionist my card who told me I was to keep my appointment at the correct time and mumbled something I couldn't hear "Are you deaf "She asked," " only when you whisper" I replied, Inwardly I was becoming miffed with this young lady and her attitude, She then asked several Questions in a louder voi...

" The Budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed, lest Rome will become bankrupt. People must again learn to work instead of living on public assistance. " - Cicero , 55 BC So, evidently we've learned little over the past 2,069 years.

LAGOS.       A Child Bride forced into marriage killed her new husband and his friends by lacing their food with Rat Poison.       Wasila Aymara 14, poisoned the men because she was forced to marry a man she did not love. They wed last week in a village !00 km north of the city of Kano in Nigeria.        The 35 year old groom had invited a dozen friends to celebrate.         Child marriage is common in Nigeria,; especially in the MUSLIM north. You may remember the Muslim North in the sixties ? was a place called Biafra, which had broken away from Nigeria, but soon became plagued with starvation; but the charitable good Christian countries around the world rallied to their plight and saved their population from annihilation.         I was in Lagos in the late fifties, I remember school children singing "Carter bridge is falling d...

    The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade is warning Australians to be careful if travelling to the Middle East following 13 more deaths in Saudi Arabia from the MERS coronavirus, must have changed the name from SARS. The warning comes as The W H Org prepares for an emergency meeting due to the spread of the disease which has caused the deaths of 139 and has infected more than 500 since the outbreak. This weekend the Saudi Health Ministry said six people had died from the disease over the previous 24 hours. We in Australia should be thankful that Sharia Law and it's archaic ignorance and cruelty has not arrived as yet in our shores - well officially; as this story  sounds absurd and totally discriminatory.       Woman to hang for Christianity A Sudanese judge has sentenced a Pregnant Christian woman to death by hanging for committing Apostasy( Converting from ones original faith).     Meriam Yahia Ib...

       The most formidable of the Faith Industry Christian following the Roman Catholic Church, is rarely short of a sexual scandal concerning not so much Nuns but the Men of the cloth who wallow in the privilege of secret sexual activity between themselves and young children in their care. These people involved could avoid this ghastly activity. should the archaic Church of Rome allow priests to marry like other normal males.     The alternative could be castration which would solve the sex problem completely , also retain a healthy bank of treble singers should the choir boy numbers drop. Poverty, Ignorance and fear of the almighty allow the church to bully their charges into submission. little wonder most of these underprivileged people have few independent thoughts of their own, this is not only in Ireland as will be mentioned but worldwide, Particularly within Hispanic communities. 160 cases of sex abuse. Church at...