Doug has an outstanding post here, explaining why belief in bodily resurrection, sacramental worship, and social action are a seamless robe.
“If the tomb is not empty, though, then surely sacraments and social action are alike in vain. Our corporeal existence has no future, and only our souls or spirits matter, while bodily life is to be left behind. Only if the tomb is empty, if Jesus has been bodily raised from the dead, do sacraments make any sense, or caring for the earth have any value.”
In their infinite wisdom, the government decided to change how motorcycle testing was carried out. Partly this was in response to EU legislation, which mandates a particular test needing to be carried out at 31mph (because of course the EU runs on kph). So part of the test – supposed to represent urban conditions – requires the trainee motorcyclist to break the law in order to pass. I kid you not.
Turns out that MPs agree that it’s a shambles.
I’m one of the people affected – to take my practical test (two parts) I’d have to do an hour and a half’s journey to Bury St Edmunds just to get started. Under the previous regime I’d only have to do the twenty minutes into Colchester – and the Colchester training sites all seem to have shut down. Good old government – more bureaucracy, less jobs, less happiness all around. Nice one.
I think that – along with thousands of other people – I’m going to stick to my L plates for some time to come.
In their infinite wisdom, the government decided to change how motorcycle testing was carried out. Partly this was in response to EU legislation, which mandates a particular test needing to be carried out at 31mph (because of course the EU runs on kph). So part of the test – supposed to represent urban conditions – requires the trainee motorcyclist to break the law in order to pass. I kid you not.
Turns out that MPs agree that it’s a shambles.
I’m one of the people affected – to take my practical test (two parts) I’d have to do an hour and a half’s journey to Bury St Edmunds just to get started. Under the previous regime I’d only have to do the twenty minutes into Colchester – and the Colchester training sites all seem to have shut down. Good old government – more bureaucracy, less jobs, less happiness all around. Nice one.
I think that – along with thousands of other people – I’m going to stick to my L plates for some time to come.
…even I think that this cartoon is bonkers. Whatever the problems with Obama’s health programme (and there are many, mainly to do with the pandering to corporations) it is nothing like the Cuban system – and all the worse for it. No sane person could prefer the US system to the Cuban, surely?!
On the relevance and irrelevance of free trade
The death of global warming (in political terms)
Last nation standing: China or the US?
Meet Trev (I might have linked to this before, but it’s worth two links 🙂
America is not ungovernable
Reading the book of Isaiah as a horror story
Some links:
Why the I-pad is bad futurism
Today we sang our hymns of faith,/cocooned for a while/in a warm blanket/of yesterdays tales…”
The top 10 faults in human thought (h/t Ian)
Why men don’t like church (cont)
A new tool for solar flare prediction
Call this a recession? (When I were a lad….)
An open-source hydrogen car
The war against suburbia
The old hag
I’m not a fan of President Obama. Here are some of the things I’ve written:
Cloverfield, Obama and Islamists (from Feb 2008, even before he gained the nomination)
Random thoughts about Obama (Oct 08)
A sequence written after his election:
On President Obama 1
On President Obama 2
On President Obama 3
On President Obama 4
On President Obama 5
A very brief review of Dreams from My Father
Unless he changes course in the next year or so, I think he will go down as one of the worst presidents in US history – and he’s up against some stiff competition! Including GW Bush, of whom I am not a fan.
