IRAN!!! Now that is out the way let's talk prison hooch!

As Obama and Brown have been all over the news today in talks about the discovery of Iran's secret second nuclear plant I was planning to discuss this in a blog... however... I then got distracted by the story of creative Dorset prisoners using the antiseptic hand gel intended to combat the spread of swine flu... to make an alcoholic beverage! As soon as the lags spotted the alcohol based hand gel they started stealing it and making their hooch by mixing it with other drinks! I bet those inmates know how to throw a party :)

You have to worry about the clever young soul who thought it would be a good idea to make a alcohol based product readily available to the prisoners and naively thought they wouldn't see an opportunity and run with it.

Countdown to Christmas has begun!!

I walked into Sainsburys today with a friend (we were buying ingredients for the BEST CURRY EVER... but that's a different story for a different day) and we quickly realised that the build up to Christmas is getting earlier and earlier each year! The aisles were filled with festive treats... candy canes, cadbury chocolate tree decorations, selection boxes and mince pies.

The truth is everybody loves Christmas, it doesn't matter how old you get!

But the thing that struck me as odd is that whilst investigating the mince pies I found that the sell date was for November... a whole month before Christmas. This may be forgiven if it wasn't for the fact that the box even had a picture of Father Christmas on it! I read in The Sun today that Tesco is selling boxes of them that are sell by October.

The holiday season is taking oveeer!!

Newborn Tot Found In Bushes

One story this week that has really upset me is that of the newborn baby found in some bushes in Buckinhamshire. The baby was found on a piece of open ground in High Wycombe with her umbilical cord still attached, suggesting that the birth of the child was not supervised by medical professionals.

Although the baby was thought to have been safe and well whilst being cared for by staff at the Wycombe General Hospital, what emotional pain will this child feel growing up knowing that she was abandoned at birth?

I suspect that the mother was maybe a young girl who accidentally got pregnant because she doesn't think contraception is important... in the words of Jeremy Kyle "Put something on the end of it!"

Who am I to judge though? This girl/woman could have some serious deep rooted psychological issues, but to leave your own baby after birth is far beyond any mental illness I have ever come across. I fail to understand the sheer cold heartedness of this. To call it a severe case of post natal wouldn't do this defenseless child any justice.

I hope that this anonymous mother will come forward and seek help.

This weeks guilty pleasure...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pccguTaYDLQ

This week I have been listening to Wake Up by French internet sensation Sliimy. I don't quite know why I like it but I do!! It is a very uppy song and even though the lyrics are mostly gibberish and you can't sing along it does leave you with a smile on your face! Just don't listen to it infront of anyone if you want to be valued as a respectful member of society...

Sliimy has been described as the "French Mika". He has been posting songs on myspace for 2 years but it was a cover of Britney Spears' Womanizer on Perez Hilton's blog that got him noticed and landed him a signing with record label Perezcious Music in the US.

A level results day!!

Congratulations to everybody who got good A level results today! I'm sure there is alot of celebrating going on across the country with the overall pass rate being a staggering 97.5%!! I personally failed 2 AS levels in my first year of college and spent the second year attempting to catch up so it's nice to see that a majority of college students are taking their futures seriously. In hindsight I wish I knuckled down a bit more but I had fun and I still made it into Uni so MEH!

1 in 4 entries got an A grade this year which is a significant progression from last year and there are 60,000 more applicants for university from last year.

Maybe the hold of the recession is making teenagers more keen to stay in education right now!

Biggs is free!! (but on verge of death)

I would just like to point out that while all the newspapers are sensationally claiming that Ronnie Biggs has finally been released from prison on compassionate grounds, the actuality is that the guards from his hospital bed have been dismissed as he is going to die any minute!

Girl dies from undiagnosed diabetes as her father prays...

Just a quick point to add on to yesterdays blog...

I remembered the story of Madeline Neumann, the 11 year old girl who died from easily treatable diabetes because it remained undetected due to her religious father's reluctance to call out for a doctor's help. The girl could not walk, talk or eat towards the end but her father claimed if he had gone to a doctor he would be putting the doctor above God and that wasn't something he was prepared to do... preferring to PRAY for her recovery instead.

It is a difficult subject to approach as I'm sure it is possible that the father actually did believe that God would heal his sick daughter... but does this not suggest that religion can become a little "brainwashy" or become an obsession when people let it take over their lives. This girl had her whole life ahead of her and passed away because her dad thought a man who may or may not exist would heal her. It's really scary.

Yesterday I suggested that people may base their lives on the teachings of the bible as a clean way of living, but by taking the book too literally Mr.Neumann has now been charged with murder.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/02/us-daughter-pray-death