Thursday, February 26th, 2009

When did we become so full of our own self importance that we decided which animals have the right to live or die?

I’ve just been watching Grime Busters on Sky 3 and i was shocked to find a man, working for the local council in London, going out into the very few fields remaining in London and along the riverside putting out traps to catch and then kill rats.

I know that rats are considered the scum of the earth and i know that traps are set in and around people’s houses etc but to actually go out into the wild to hunt them down i find shocking!

Don’t get me wrong, im not a fan of rats, just a fan of pro-life in the belief that every animal has the right to live. Frankly if you are so dirty that you do not keep your home clean then you should expect to get infested with rats, cockroaches, earwigs etc but it makes me angry that humanity seems to believe it has the right to determine whether an animal has the right to live or die.

I feel the same when it comes to the likes of fix hunting, badger baiting, deer shooting etc. To hunt any animal for fun is just wrong in my opinion. It’s completely different if you have to kill an animal to survive, whether it is because the animal is attacking you or you need to eat, i mean every animal kills other animals for food but they certainly do it in the name of fun. When was the last time a lioness woke up and thought, “I’m bored, lets go hunt and kill some wilderbeast”? We also seem to forget that it was us that have taken away the homes of all these animals by destroying the forest to build houses!

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Thursday, February 19th, 2009

WO American hate preachers were banned tonight from entering Britain by Home Secretary Jacqui Smith.

Extremist Christian leaders Fred Phelps and daughter Shirley Phelps-Roper had planned to jet into the UK to protest against a play being put on by a gay youth group on Friday. The fanatics are both members of the US Westboro Baptist Church – a sick sect which calls for homosexuals to be killed and CELEBRATES soldiers’ deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Phelps, 79, and his daughter Shirley, 51, had targeted a performance of The Laramie Project, about the death of an American man killed for being gay.

They had boasted they would picket the play, due to be held at a school arts centre in Basingstoke, Hampshire. But the pair will now be stopped by immigration officials on arrival and placed straight on a flight back to the US.

Home Office sources said other church members could also be flagged and stopped if they tried to enter Britain.

The ban comes after Dutch MP Geert Wilders was barred from the UK last week for his extremist views on Islam.

The Westboro Baptist Church, based in Kansas, US, has been dubbed “the most evil religious sect in the world” and was exposed in 2007 by TV documentary-maker Louis Theroux. Its members, mostly Phelps family relatives, regularly picket funerals of US war heroes, claiming their deaths are punishment for America’s tolerance of gays.

Full Story found HERE.

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Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

Unless you have been living under a stone you must have heard the news that Jade Goody is sadly dying from Cancer.
Sadly there are thousands of people dying from Cancer every day. In fact my own Grandmother died from Cervical Cancer at the age of 58, my own Mother was diagnosed with Cervical Cancer 4 years ago at the age of 56 although thankfully she has beaten it, and i am personally battling Bowel Cancer which is currently in remission.

So why have i decided to post about Jade and what makes Jade’s story anymore important than the thousands of other sufferers?…

Well Jade has always loved the limelight and has been a big part of UK television since she was in Big Brother a few years ago. I’ve never liked Big Brother personally so i never watched her on it but i personally learnt more about Jade when she made her Reality TV show on Living TV which chronicled her life after BB where she was trying to release her own line of Perfume.

This show particularly was great TV. Jade has never been afraid of showing her true self to the world and for me she come across as yet another dim girl trying to become famous. However for all her faults, more than anything she comes across as a truly genuine person who despite a very sad childhood has come out on top and worships her children. So who cares whether she’s a bit ‘thick’? She’s no different than hundreds of thousands of other girls in the same position but for becoming the person she has, she should be solute and she certainly has my utmost respect!

The saddest thing about Jade’s story though and why she has my deepest sympathies is because she’s put a face to Cancer and is showing the world what Cancer victims go through every day.
What is more sad though is how the media have ‘told’ her story. One minute she’s nothing more than a thick bitch and the next minute she’s Mother Teresa! Then the cruel bastards have been predicting her death and how long she might last. Do they not think about the damage they are doing in the name of ‘entertainment’? Not does this poor woman have to deal what she is going through but then she has to pick up a paper and find that people are predicting her death! How about the rest of family? What about her friends? What about her partner? And most importantly, what about her children? How do they think her children are going to feel when they grow up not only without a Mother but then reading about people predicting her death or one week the Media have done nothing but slag her off but the following week they are worshiping her? IT MAKES ME SICK!

I know you’re never likely to read this Jade but my heart goes out to you, to your friends, to your family, to Jack and to your beautiful children. It is not important how well educated you are or from what background you come from. What is important is the person you became despite everything you’ve been through – a wonderful, loving, genuine person who brought two beautiful children into this God Forsaken world and giving them the love that you sadly didn’t receive.

I sincerely hope that you and those close to you can enjoy what precious time you have left and thank you for bringing the Cancer cause to those who have never seen it.

You truly are an inspiration to us all and your children will be very proud of you.

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Monday, February 16th, 2009

Blogging and Blogs have become an important part of being online. Whether your blog is personal such as a diary, your main website or part of a business it is truly an asset to any website.

You can start a blog with your own domain installed http://Wordpress.org as blogging script at your own host. This is what many marketers do for their blogs. 2. Another option includes starting blog with Google at http://Blogger.com both Wordpress and Blogger are free, simple to use and both have all-inclusive tutorials for newbies.
Blog URL:

• The URL should be relative to the content of your blog and idealy contain important keywords.

Posting:

• Posting is about loading something on your blog which may be content, image, or media.
• Posting should be regular and related right through the topic and in a specified category.
• Content is key: Regular and informative posting not only keeps your readers coming back but also keeps the search engines coming back.

Tagging:

• Tagging is about giving keyword to your particular posting.
• Tagging gives more exposure to your particular posting

Categorization:

• Always make categorization to your posting so the readers can pick the topic easily.

Linking:

• Linking is one of the important ways to get ranking early on search engines.
• Make a link to your website in blog posting it will also generate back links to your web site.

Pinging:

• Whenever you have posted something new on your blog than let the world web known abt it.
• For more information about Pinging visit  http://pingomatic.com , http://pingoat.com

Blog Submission:

• Submit your blog to blog directories. This will help your blog in two ways, initially you will get straight traffic from there, and secondly your blog will have one more everlasting link there.
• Submit blog in different directory with different titles that will give you ranking on more keywords.

Start your blog today! At Hampshire Web Design we provide Wordpress free with all hosting packages which is available through our Script Installer which installs Wordpress in only a few clicks. No need to mess around with code or FTPing, just click on the installer, follow the process and your new blog is ready for you to start writing.

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Saturday, February 14th, 2009

Ecommerce Forums is a forum which we have set up for discussing all aspects of running a business, e-commerce, web hosting, website design and all aspects of coding.

We have already added a number of useful resources to the forum with links to many tutorials and free downloads. We sincerely hope you’ll come along and join us! www.EcommerceForums.net.

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Friday, February 6th, 2009

With the credit crunch biting hard many businesses are finding it tough to keep themselves afloat.

Business Link are dishing out some excellent tips on how to keep going in the current climate. By taking a few simple steps such as managing your efficiency, cash-flow and debts, as well as looking at employment opportunities and carefully considering your finances, you can tighten the reins on your business and ride through the recession.

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Monday, February 2nd, 2009

I have just come back from dropping my brother-in-law at the train station, (bearing in mind that i left at 5:50am and it’s now 6:50am and the train station is less than a mile away) and we have a good 6 inches of snow here and i couldn’t drive any faster than 10MPH so unless you have no other choice i would strongly recommend that you don’t leave the house today or at the very least don’t drive

Take care

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