Its been a while

Ok, I know I have not updated the blogger since november, but lots of issues have affected my life which I would rather not talk about at the mo.  But felt I had to give an update,

So the new Website is http://www.calumbus.weebly.com/ and this will be about my bus related activities, however I will still post on here when things have settled down abit as I am sure you have all missed my rants. 

Anyway TTFN

The march of the Lemmings

Society is one big march of the lemming heading toward the edge of a cliff,  Tv and mass media help us head in that direction, giving us soap opera's X factor, Coming dancing on ice, where the audience are invited to phone voted at £10 per minute for the minimum of 20 minutes.  Magazines and newspapers sell us the lifestyles of the rich and famous, who get up to alsorts, because they are bored and want attention, and the fact those publications have no real new to report

The conditioning starts at a very early age, when the children when they reach a certain age and are taught the ways which are going to help them find jobs and start families in later life,  I know this has been touched on in previous blogs

The class rooms are all full of children reciting the same answers as a unit, the ones who dont fit in are singled out and given a label, such as ADHD etc, but maybe there creativity is catered for in other ways, maybe they need encouraging to find there talents, and once those talents are found then those talents are encouraged, rather than being given up on.  We all have differant talents

You have those people who think differently in life, those who go against the grain of society, like a salmon swimming upstream and jumping the waterfall, countless fail on the way but there are the few that get there, and good luck to them, What is normal?  We are all differant, we are all individuals, every single one of us

How many of us exercise our own thoughts, and set our minds and spirits free, well not many.  Our fast paced lifestyles dictate we cant, so we follow the crowd like the lemmings and cast the ones who are differant as misfits.  The world is mad and we are all normal, or vice versa.

TTFN

Self actualisation do we ever reach it?

I'm starting the blog with a question, and to me the answer is no, we never fully reach self actualisation, because we are looking for the next fix, the next opportunity.  lets face humans are ambitious beings, they are the ones who made that extra step in the evolution chain. 

What is everyones idea of self actualisation?  well to some it is being comfotable, living in a new house, with a family, driving that ideal car and having the ideal job.  but not many people actually get there, but they dream of it, and media use those dreams and aspirations to sell there wares to the masses,  "you too could look good if you buy our product",

Lets look at me, Iam 34, worked hard for more years than I care to remember, I enjoy life, well when not walked over by people, but that is another story.  I dont have the best car in the world, At present I still live with my mother, but I have followed my dream, done my ideal job and have many hours of fun in the process. 
Iam still single, but the write one hasnt come along yet and doubt if she will because I am one picky bastard, but I refuse to let that get me down, I dont pay to go on dating sites and I dont spend the night going from pub to club looking for someone. I'm not interested and to be honest prefer to sit on my shelf at times observing everyone else.  I am digressing.

I suppose if we look at the Maslow the basic needs are shelter, food and companionship, now I have a roof over my head, and I do eat, I have skipped the third, although I was there once.  I do have lots of good friends though.  Ok so just the Esteem to achieve and self actualisation to get to.

Now Esteem or confidence, well I have it in some ways such as driving, and having a laugh with my mates, but when comes to finding the ideal life partner then it goes out the window. 

We all want to belong, be part of that clique and we do get there, its all about following the crowd, going with the flow.  Unfortunately something I wont do, I refuse to follow the crowd, simply because just because everyone else watches X factor then why should I?.  This probably explains why I get frustrated with things. 

I suppose to get where we want in life we have to think for ourselves, open up our minds to new thinking and get out the comfort zones and live a little.  Maybe have a read of Maslow yourselves.  We all have times of caos but we just have to get through them. 

ttfn

Well heres to the dawn of a new age

So last nights blogg was a catch up and reflection of the past few months, little did I know that life would have turned out the way it has.  Got to ask the question where do I want it to go next? 

This is the first in a serious of blogs, that will chart my progress as I get some projects in life off the ground,  My life plan or business plan of my life if you like.  I am holding alot of cards close to my chest, as events will unfold, but it will be interesting. 

One thing I did forget to mention was the return of a long lost friend back in to my life, I have known this person on and off for about 20 years now, and I used to spend many weekends sweeping his buses out as a kid.  He has shaped some of my ways.  This person came back in to my life just before the weekend I went to Scotland. 

Talking about Scotland, the Gorgious city of Edinburgh which is one of my favourite places, is part of my Clans ancestoral home, (the other place is Inverness), which explains why I feel at home there. 

Right down to business,  I am now 34, at a stage in life, where I have done my dream job now I want more out of life.  I know I am not ready to settle down, marry and start a family yet, dont think I ever will be to be honest, as I know there is so much I want to do and would be unfair on a future wife and family.  Sounds harsh but I am being realistic. 
If I was to have a family I would want to devote alot of time to them, I know I cant at the mo, but maybe a year down the line I will think different. 

So the last few years have been interesting to say the least I know I havent really spoke about the events but Somethings are best buried.  But they have taught me a vital lesson, and that is the most important thing we must learn, we can all sit a University course, but sometimes the school of life is the best way to learn. 

Now we all reach points where we have to take a look at our selves and see where we are going wrong, where we need to improve, our strengths our wekaness.  How many of us actually take time to sit and and actually do this, I dont, because I am caught up in the rigours of life. 
A very wise man,(and he will know who he is), once said to me, you have a problem, stand back and look at it, then the solution will be staring you in the face.

  The Chinese have the same word for opportunity and threat.   Infact the chinese are wise people, they speculate, well they leased a piece of land to the British empire, and what happened?  Well it was developed in to a world centre of commerce for the brits to hand it back in 1997 fully delveloped.  They only subscribed to communism in the last century, But I am digressing.

My strengths are I work hard, and care about things, my weakness is I work hard and care about things, we have to look at differant perspectives.  You watch the news about the war in Iraq and we get one side of the story, watch Al-jazeera and you get the other side of the story. I do look at both sides of a story.  To quote Robbie Williams and Gary Barlow in one of their songs there is are 3 sides to a story, mine and yours and the truth.  never a true word said. 

I know Iam at that time of life where I can still be in control before age starts going against me.  Only time will tell,  Stay tuned for the next installment.

TTFN

I'm still here, just had alot on recently.

I have looked at when I last wrote a blog and it was just after losing my dad.  I was going to write my thoughts on the 10th anniversary of the murder at the world trade centre, and thoughts about my birthday but had too much on my mind.

In the time past I have been dianosed with type 2 diabetes, buried my dad, and tried to get on with things,  Just want to say thank you to everyone who sent kind wishes, it is amazing how many people out there genuinely care.  I also know I have some very good friends.

So what has life taught me so far, well it is a stupid and sometimes corrupt world we live in, infact, those rioters should have concentrated less on getting their 5 fingered discounts from PC world. No they should have concentrated on going to every freemason lodge in the country and burning them down and smashing those places up.  What started off as a political statement, got railroaded by a bunch of kids and selfish bastards.

It has also taught me to look for opportunities, I am always looking at where I want to be in the next few years, but time will tell.  The biggest thing I learned following losing my is that life is too short, Why worry about the after life, because we are all living for the now, our lives are the biggest adventure we will all have, we all hold our future in our hands, so all this media that trys to manipulate us, and sell us shit we dont actually want or need can get lost. 

Being diagnosed with Diabetes has made me look at my ways, now before I didnt eat properly and would be up for hours on end, I do eat a bit better now and have lost a load of weight.  I am still living my life for me and not letting it get me down.  I still have loads to do in this life.

 so on that thought I will go for now 

TTFN

Saturday 27th August 2011 more words of wisdom

Looking back through my blogs, I have noticed that it is a while since my last rant, which was probably about the riots, the break down of society, probably more critisism of this government,  yes does not matter who is in power, they will be corrupted by that power.  I am not going to talk about that tonight, I know the Government are a bunch of zips,  Mind you looking at the wars in Afghanistan and Lybia, takes me back to the dicks pussy's and arseholes speech from team america.  good film might watch after writing this.

No I am dedicating tonights blog to my dad, who sadly passed away last week,  this combined with a mini holiday, means that I have not been around.  My dad was a kind man, honest man,  he served on the local council in Nottingham for many years. 

He was a socialist in every sense, who fought peoples corners, tried to make a differance to the City of Nottingham, a city I know he loved.  No words can describe the good he did,  as well as a all round good man, and public figure, was a family man, who would give time to his four children.  I know from my own events of the last few years he was there for me, and in a way provided guidance and helped me long during some real dark personal times.

He was an armchair sportsman and historian, and quite often I would come to find him watching documentaries about the battle of Starlingrad or the cricket.  He was an avid follower of formula one

 His biggest love after his family was music.  He enjoyed a wide variety from blues through to current stuff,  Looking at his Ipod reveals a wide variety of songs, and he is indirectly responsible for my wide interest in music, although i'm not so bothered about pre 1977 pop music.

  I hope you are reading this dad, where ever you are, and I hope you are proud of me, I hope I can make you proud in the future, what ever I do.  I know he will be with us all in spirit, so lets keep that legacy going.

One thing you do learn when you lose someone, is you look at yourself, look at your past mistakes and thing about what we can do in the future,  now as far as I am concerned we have one shot at this life. So we can look at our past and regretting things or we can use the past to help us look to the future, make those plans and do our best to see those things through, and yes our circumstances will change, but where there is a will there is a way.

What holds us back, we the simple answer is go and look in the mirror, life might be hard but things will get better, sometimes you have to stick your middle right hand digit in the air and say fuck you life, I am going to do this.  Dont put yourself down because there are plenty of bastards out there who are more than happy to do that, and there is no such word as cant.  bollocks to cant, you find a way, it might just take you slightly longer to get there, but when you do then you and look satisfied and say I did it, I got there. 

I am roughly half my dads age, I know what I want out of life, and ok there are some barriers to some of the things I want out of life, but I am going to find that way,  fuck the mass media manipulation, I know what is wrong and right. I have made past mistakes, and I have learned from them too.  Now this is something that irriates me.  Society in this not so great britain are happy to judge people on past mistakes and not what that person could offer in the future, we are all individuals we are all differant, lets celebrate the fact.

Right I am going now talk soon

TTFN

The aftermath

Ok, we have seen 2 press conferances today.  Cameron spouted out the usual toryboy crap, threatened to bring back a sort of National service for 16 year olds, declared war on gang culutre and blaming the problem on the break up of the family unit credos, IE blaiming single parent families living in deprived council estates full of ferral kids..  Milliband made more sense, saying that it does what the background or the area that person is from, it is the upbringing that is the problem.  For example one of the so called ferral kids could come from a very affluent area, with parents bringing in a good income and that kid attends private school, where by a kid from a single parent family, could be in every night, is polite and respects the community.

The people rioting in particular areas were the minority, most of the people from that area are good honest genuine people, who go to work, struggle to make ends meat.  They just want live their lives. 

Some of the greedy selfish immoral bastards who did the looting, came from good backgrounds, had good jobs.  Some had travelled great distances to take part.  One of the looters was the daughter of a millionaire, and another was a teenage ambassador for the olympics.  One of the looters in Nottingham was an 11 year old girl.

Why do we have the problems?  well the country has gone too PC, people are scared to discipline their children, the same children are too familiar of their rights.  We have had hysteria caused because of the register.
Now here is an example for you,  Your child is playing up. you try and discipline them.  they get angry and tell tales. the next thing the social services are involved.  next thing you end up on the register, and guess what, because of the press about sex offenders etc.  you become tarred with the same brush.  Society has alot to answer for. 

So cameron is blaming single parent families and gang culure.  easy targets,  I blame the state of the country and society's letting these things happen, letting the liberal PC brigade dictate, saying "you cant say black coffee" and " you cant smack your kids".  Allowing the trouble causers to know about their rights, so they keep pushing the boundaries. 

Gang culture has been a around since the dawn of time.  look at the Mods and Rockers during the 1960's with the punch ups on Brighton beach.  The teddyboys from the 1950's, the skinheads from the 1980's.  fact of the matter is young people are rebelious, and this is good,( I believe that the establishment, IE the government need to be constantly challenged to keep them on their toes), and they also need a sense of belonging, with people of the same ideals,.  Gangs will be their forever.  So you have a group of lads who hang out together, like the same music, dress the same, is this a gang? are they going to get targeted?  and the forced national service for 16 year old.  What cameron forgets is that these people he is on about will be eligable to vote very soon, IE by the time of the next election,(unless he decides to meddle with the voting age and raise it to 21), what are these people going to do.  Well they could vote him out.  These teenagers are our future.

I personally do not like any of the political parties, but that is because I have seen crap government after crap government going right back to when I was a babe in arms.  So one who comes along and gets the economy going, and allow us to have a decent standard of living will get my vote.

 So Mr Cameron, once you sort this problem out are you going to sort out the people who really looted us.  You didnt see them on the streets, but they have robbed every single one of us.  They are the greedy fat cat bankers, the phone hackers and the MP's who fiddled the expenses.  In my opinion these people should be brought to trial.  But it is not in the public interest, or in the case of the banks they are just too big to fail.  Trouble is Cameron went to the same public school as half of these people, and it is going against the code, if he investigates.  The fabric of society is unravelling, just hope we are not too late.

One last thing before I go.  To stop more problems I think the TV companies should stop broadcasting the fly on the wall programmes showing children of millionaires, who live of the fortunes their parents worked hard to build up, Programmes like this show spoilt rich wastes of space living it large, spending money like water.  These tossers have never had to get up and go to work.  They have never had red overdue letters coming through their letter, or dreaded the phone ringing.  No wonder people were looting.  These programmes glorify the something for nothing bling I dont have to go to work culture.  And the viewer following the programmes like lemmings and have to live the same.  just a thought.

TTFN

A quiet night for a change

Ok things were  more quiet last night, but the weather was bad in places, so the kids were probably told to stay in and not go out looting and rioting because they might get wet and catch a cold.  It also trnaspires that some of the people doing the looting are from well to do backgrounds, some have good jobs, some had even travelled some distance to take part, so it is not all council estate scum from deprived areas doing it.

There was a huge police presence, and I spotted a convoy of 20 police vans from the Grampian region on the M6, whilst I was on my way to Blackpool.  Things were quiet indeed, have the government got things under control?  have the Looters got bored of looting, or are we in the eye of the storm?

Through out the night courts in some cities were.  Cameron sanctioned the use of water cannons and rubber bullets, which is a sad sign of things to possibly come.   Thank you for cutting short your holiday and sorting the problem out.  It still think you are a twat though.

 Britain is a nation of rioters, in the 19th century groups of weavers and knitters smashed up, framework knitting machines and looms, because they thought that these machines who cost them their jobs.  The action cost them their lives or freedom. as they were either strung up or transported to Australia.  You can not solve the problem. 

A couple of interesting sites I chanced upon told some interesting insights, one story was saying that the government were looking for powers to pull the plug on social networking sites,  now because some fuckwits have used it why should everyone else suffer.  Another story said that the police were ordered to stand back and allow the looters to get on with it, their images would be captured on CCTV and used later on.  It also suggested agent provocotures, which is a low underhanded tactic.

So the actions of these idiots, has caused more problems,  demands for troops on the streets, water cannons, rubber bullets,  well you might as well take away democracy, and impose a totalitarian regime.

Ok.  On a lighter note I will be having a break for a few days, which is well overdue and needed.  Off to scotland, and I am going to enjoy myself, so bollocks to the the government and the looters. 

TTFN

So did you do last night?

We are now entering the 4th night of rioting looting and violence, the trouble has spread to cities far and wide, with trouble in Wolverhampton, manchester, even Nottingham has had some incidents,  Tonights Blog is a continuation of last nights, Cameron cut shot his sailing trip with the Rothschilds, to take charge of things, even Boris has been seen in the streets complete with brush.  Thankfully no one has been killed during the riots, but it is only a matter of time. 

The real point of the protest has been lost, and the angry people may have gone home, the gobshites, the kids who think it is a good idea are out and about, the attacks are co-ordinated, with the use of Blackberry phones and kids on bikes. 

Debates are going on, and even armoured vehicles have been deployed to disperse crouds.  I watched a Russia today report and the anchorwoman described about having to get out of a particular street, as a gang was eyeing up the broadcasting equipment.   It is co-incidental that all this is going on when the country is on the verge of another recession

Infact The USA are in the shit big time too, as the moved down the credit scale, so grim times ahead.  Not quite the winter of discontent, but the way things are going we will be not far off.

I have heard people saying send in the troops to London, but our brave boys are already busy fighting pointless unwinnable wars in volatile regions, wars which helped get us in to the mess in the first place.  Things. 

No easy answer, and I just hope people dont take the law in to their own hands and go down the vigilante route, because this causes more trouble than it is worth.

TTFN

Is this the new 1981???

We have all seen the riots spreading across London, and a possible civil unrest in Birmingham,  The riots are reminicent of the ones in 1981.  In fact I am sure that Tottenham was one of the places involved in both cases,  I have previously likened this year to 1981, with rising unemployment, uncertainty with the economy, a royal wedding.  We sort of had the the seige when Bin laden's compound was stormed and the twat was excuted.  I cant really remember 1981, as I was a 3 year old.

Ok, alot of the riots happened in deprived innercity areas, full of ethnic minorities, who felt that the police was persecuting them,  alot of these people we ruled by the gang culture.  Ok now look at the ones happening today and yes, the same causes,  gang and drug culture are rife in these areas.  Ok, the event that sparked it all off happened on thursday with the shooting of a man, who was in a minicab. 

I am sure the tension was there before the shooting, and it was just waiting for a catalyst to spark it all off.
However in these situations what can start of as a peaceful protest can escalate when the rentamob brigade get involved, they are happy to travel anywhere with the sole intention of starting trouble, turning people against people, making hell for those trying to live their lives.

London has far too many people crampt into dense spaces,  take a load of rats and put them in the same cage and they will turn on each other.   Society is interwoven, and one tug means the whole thing starts unravelling.  We are at an interesting time, and yes I do not like the government, I do not really trust the police, and I believe things need to change, but you cant change things by damaging property, putting normal peoples lives in danger.  There is no easy answer to this, Society is to blame, we created this culture.  The culture that allows crime, drugs arms gangs and so on to thrive, the young people join these gangs because they want a sense of belonging.  territories are defined by post codes.  So wrong.

Things are looking very Orwellian, unnecessary rules and regualtions are brought in, people going about there everyday business are targeted because they are doing slightly differant things to everyone else, and being individuals.  Again things get like this because we as society let it happen.  So I look at the footage, look at the news about the global recession, and come to the conclusion that we all reap what we sow.  We are all to blame. 

You may not agree with me, but I have said my piece, we all have individual thoughts, if only we were allowed to carry out our individuality the world could be a wonderful place.  just thing about the picture taken from the moon of the earth.  Then we will truely understand the world we live in. 

That is all for now TTFN

Are we in the Shit?

Well I had settled down to watch torchwood, whilst sorting my pictures on my Flickr sight, and interesting has caught my attention.  Stock markets crashing, possible.  America looks like it is screwed, Countries that joined the Euro look forward to a similar fate.  Good job our Nation never joined the Euro.

So, grim times to look forward to, but enough of that shit, it is the greedy bastards who over trade in the Stock markets who caused the problem, and it is the rest of us who foots the bill.  So next time you see a stock trader in the street, I as a tax payer give you permission to take his car, because you have paid for it. 

Torchwood is becoming gripping stuff, and really playing on the world wide conspiracy stuff.  It amuses me how many conspiracies originate in the US.  Well it is a very paranoid country at the best of times, well look at the coldwar, the invasion of Granada.  The 10th anniversary of the murder of thousands of people is nigh, now people can argue about whether it was an inside job or not, til they are blue in the face.  But the fact of the matter is thousands of people died that day, for a distorted idealology, some crazy dreams thought up by some crazy people, seem intent on world domination.

Sometimes we all have to say fuck it, stop worrying, and find a distraction, how many people rule their lives rather than let life rule them.  Well better go for now

TTFN

Happy Birthday this blog is one year old.

So it is a year ago since I typed my first thoughts on this blog.  Loads of things have happened in that time, this time last year I was living away from home, about to move employers.  I had lots of other things going off in life to,  some not so pleasant, but I created this blog and channelled my frustrations.  I have built up a following too, and quite alot of people regularly read my rants, 

Some people have asked me what are my political persuasions,  well the answer is very simple,  I think they are all a bunch of twats, who are out to give themselves more power.  Just thing at this moment David Cameron is probably sailing round the Med on the Rothschilds Yacht,
I also do not like secret groups such as the Freemasons,  I just cannot see a point, if these people have nothing to hide, why belong to such an organisation.  It also makes a mockery of law and order, when law enforcers and criminals belong to the same lodge,  in public they are enemies, but in the lodge they are Brothers,  what utter bollocks.  As far as I am concerned, Freemasonary, corruption and politics all go hand in hand.  Sometimes I think the biggest organised criminals reside in a big building just off Parliament Square.

Another reoccuring theme is my frustration with society, and the way it acts like lemming walking to the edge of the cliff.  All the while we are manipulated by the media, advertisng executives, pricks like Rupert Murdoch are on a power crusade, to control knowledge, by giving us watered down piss, with stories about Jodie Marsh and the supercar repainted pink by Katie Price.  Next they will be going on about what colour her piss is.  All she is, is some slapper who flashed her tits in the daily star and the sun several years ago.  Just goes to show the decent and talented people die young, thats why she is still here and annoying us all.

This time last year I was totally stressed out, due to various reasons but I am coming round to the conclusion that why worry life is what we all make it, and there are 3 certain things, we are born, we are taxed then we die,  we only have one shot in this life, I dont even worry about the afterlife, why, what is the point.  Life is for living. 

So here is for the next part in this journey of life, wonder where it will take me?  who knows. 

TTFN

My last few days

So I left you all, a few days ago with a bee in my bonnet, We when you see society for what it really is, which is basically a modern day Pompei, which is on the brink of reaping what has sowed.  More of that later!!!.

So Friday was more of the same, which involved driving round and round in circles during graduation.  Lots of proud parents which nice camera's, wonder if any will end up on Ebay, hmm I will have to have a look, as I am in the market for a new one, as my trusty Fuji bounced off the floor.  I have been using my dads Olympus compact, which is ok, but not the same.

Saturday involved an outing to London, all was going well until I had a blowout on the motorway, but after an hour the problem was fixed and we were on our way.  Well after negoiating my way round London, including a bit of impromptu sightseeing, I even passed the headquaters of the controversial News International.  But I survived and got back ok.  I still do not like London I find it over rated.

On the Sunday I went to Wirksworth for the Ecclesbourne Valley Railway bus gala.  I had a ride on 2 lovely examples of Leyland Tiger PS1/2 variety and they were a delight.  A great pint was had in the pub in Duffield and a great laugh with some good friends.

 The day was slightly marred by the Death of singer Amy Winehouse and the massacre in Norway.  There have been lots of comments about both, and I know that one cant be compared to the other and are devastating in their own ways.  There is something that keeps cropping up which does annoy and that is all these people comparing Amy Winehouse to the death of a solder.
I do not agree with either war that our country is involved with, they are both huge waste of resources, and I do not think we would win either, Afghanistan is in a particular volatile region.  The solders join up, because they wanted to see the world and get in on the action, they know the risks of the conflict, and yes it is upsetting to families because they are losing someone. 

What the guy in Norway has done is truely evil, killing innocent people at will, because someone wants to send a warning message out proclaiming his distorted rightwing views.  As I keep saying we all live on a small planet.  Thing is if the man was to die, then he would be a martyr to the cause.  We have had enough innocents dying at the hands of the extremists.

All extremists, be they be right wing, left wing, muslim, christian, black white Martian, whatever.  They all have distorted idealologies, dreamt up by people who preach to impressionable people who go out to act as footsolders for the cause.  These idealologies are bollocks, they would never work in the mainstream, because to work the views have to move to the central.  Thats why the politicians are all more or less the same, the mavericks get ousted or sidelined.  Let me know what you think if you like.  anyway I will leave you with a nice picture   TTFN

Right thats it

The News of the world scandal is getting tasty, it now involves the government, and has resulted in the resignation of 2 senior people in the metropolitian police.  So society is corrupt, and everyones hands is dirty. 

Senior people involved with news international, have also resigned, namely that bigotted bitch, Rebecca Brookes, it was interesting seeing the boot on the other foot as she was grilled by the MP's,  had she been sat in the with the other journalists then I am sure she would be relishing the whole circus. 
Someone chucked a foam pie at Murdoch and got a good slap off mrs Murdoch,  shame has was taken away by the police before he could smack the bitch back.

The general public is also to blame, because they buy the rancid papers there by helping the scandals and corruption, but what do I know, I am one man, but I am proud of one fact, I dont not buy the sun, infact I dont buy any newspaper at all.  I get my info from lots of sources, both mainstream and alternative. 

Murdoch reminds me of the baddie in one of the Bond films, who wanted to start a war, just so he could have exclusive coverage of it. 

The more I look at the world the more I am convinced we are all reaping what we have all sowed.  everyone is so suspicious of everyone else, someone is fortunate in someways and lots of people are jealous and try to bring that person down. 

We have CCTV everywhere, which watches our everymove, yet someone points their SLR camera in the wrong direction then they are being hassled by police officers or CSO's quoting imaginary laws, while at the same time criminals are running riot.  So there we are

Rant over TTFN

This blog is nearly a year old

Well the last week has been full of the news of the world scandal, with copies of the last edition apparently selling on Ebay for good money, but I am not going to talk about that brand of toilet paper, or the fact of wondering if Freemasons and the current government play soggy biscuit?,  I will let you draw your own conclusions about that one.  I have my ideas and theories, well it must be the reason why freemasons wear capes, and roll a trouser leg up.  maybe the funny handshake is to show how firm a grip the brothers have, afterall it is top secret and no girls allowed. 

When I started the blog a year ago, my life was full of frustrations, to do with life in general, the way society was going, The incompetances of all governments, who are all a bunch of tossers in my book.  Plus other observations. 

This time last year I was coming to the conclusion that I had to move employer, and at the time I did not look forward to that prospect, as I learned to drive a bus there, and cutting my driving teeth there, due to a wide range of reasons I had to move, before it was too late.  So I was doing the Skegness service, and schools, along with airport jobs.  I remember doing the last school runs and looking at my colleagues, think that this would be the last time I work with alot of these people,  It was quite an emotional feeling, but the move had to be made. 

The Skegness service involved quite along drive, and I would use this time to run things through my head, and I tried to work out why things were happening in this particular way.  I actually wanted things to be so differant, where my next move would be working for myself, not to be at the time.
Events between sep 09 and June10, were to shatter my confidence, be it the companies run ins with the authorities, competitors, and lots of other reasons.

 But the trick in this life is not to let those who do you down win, hold your ground and find that strength to fight back in your own way.

On top of this was events happening in my personal life, which were clashing with my work life, but I will go in to that another time, But the events did cost me a relationship, forcing me to move home.

So it has been an interesting adventure, and well the year has been used to get myself back on my feet, find my voice again, and speak my mind, So if I think the government are a bunch of c***s then I will say they are a bunch of C***s. 

So hear is to the future, I will say what I think and to hell with those who want me silenced,  freedom of speech, that is what we fought 2 world wars for.

TTFN

News of the world

So it has been announced the rancid rag called news of the world is to cease after this sunday.  The whole saga started off when it was alledged that, an undercover investigator had hacked in to the phone of Milly Dowler.

Then it came out that casualties of the pointless wars that our country is engaged in, had had their phones hacked.  The former editor who is now a political aide, was arrested and questioned.  The red haired Rebecca Brooks has been moved within the organisation.  It would surprise me if she got to that postition by laying on her back. 

It is a fact of life that scandal sell, the sleazyer the better, now I dont give a shit, which footballer is shagging which dumbing blond model from Essex, they want to do that sort of thing, then let them get on with it.  Ok it is all invasion of privacy, but hey they work for the Meglomanic Murdoch, so they can walk on water. 

My information is beig read by civil servants, police operatives all the time, and it makes me crawl when some big fat perverted hack can get hold of my info, hack in to my phone if they so wished, in order to make up a story to sell to that purveyor of toilet paper, to keep some media elitist mogul selling more papers and getting richer all the time.  Mind you the news of the world, the daily mail, the sun would make bad toilet paper, because they are all full of shit already.  

So Willam and Kate are in Canada, but who cares about that, well I dont.  be funny if their visas ran out and they were stuck there. 

Unfortunately this is a very corrupt world we live in,  it is dog eat dog and the one with the bigger teeth survives.  I have just been reading Mr Nice, the book by Howard Marks and I found it very imformative, and ok he dealt in Hash but he took on the system and fought it. 

We have to fight our battles, after all if people didnt we would be either living in a facist of communist state.  after all it is that British spirit.

 Going back to Murdoch, past prime ministers have sucked up to the slimeball, and his organisation of disinfomation, to the point where he effectively became untouchable, thing is everyone else who works for the organisation and he will get away,  The people such as Rebecca Brooks and Andrew Coulson, who is involved with the current administration, will be the scape goats, they will be dropped from a great height.  I just hope this causes the share capital of News international to plummet.  I will never forget what the sun did back in 1989 to the families of the Hilsborough Victims, when journalists posed as social workers to interview the families and get their scoop.  Truth be known Murdoch does not care who he stamps on, who he as sucking up to him, as long as the papers keep selling and the money keeps rolling in.  What a scumbag.

So the end of the news of the World, well good ridence, lets hope the scandal takes the rest of the empire with it.

TTFN

Nearly July.

Well we move in July in a couple of days, half of 2011 has gone, 1st July will mark the 10th anniversary of passing my car test.  tomorrow marks 10 years of buy the Leopard, That story is for another time.  I have driven thousands of miles in the 10year period, gone through 3 cars.  although the 2nd car was a disaster, although fun while it lasted. 

Cant believe how quick the last 10 years have past.  looking to the future now and I wonder what I will be doing in 10 years time, well that adventure is beginning, will be interesting though.

 We lots of public servants on stike regarding pensions, the age is going up, so people will have to work longer to get the pay.  Now I know for a fact that when I get to that age there will be bugger all in the pot.  So why pay in lots for something i might not get.  Put the money elsewhere. If I was to pay in my money would pay for the baby boomers, who are in the process of retirement.  Yes the early post war years, well I suppose with all the men just returned from fighting, they had alot to catch up on. 

Petrol prices are begining to go down, Greece is in the shit, and is looking likely to be going to the IMF for a loan, well that is them screwed.  Gadaffi is a wanted man, and a complete tosser, talking about tossers Obama has announced that the American armed forces are making a a gradual withdrawal from Afganistan.  A place where no one has been able to tame since Gengis Khan. 

I suppose we will here how the demonstrations went along with the strike, I know most of the schools were off today.  More blogging for another time

TTFN

Monday 27th June 2011

Well the nights start drawing in now, we say byebye to Glastonbury for a couple of years, Something due to the diamond jubilee of the coronation of some woman from a big family of imbreads, whos ancestors came and took the country by force.  Thank goodness we dont have to bow down to the bastards anymore, as I am not their subject.  I am a free man.  Doesnt seem 5 minutes since the last celebration which was 9 years ago, blimey alot has happened in that time.

We have Andy Murray through to the quater finals, it makes me laugh that we call him british whilst he is doing ok, but when he loses the he will be Scottish.  typical of the Great British elitism  Mind you the Williams sisters are out, so we do have to put up with their grunting. 

Is Britain still Great, well, we once had a mighty empire but gave it away, we developed Hong Kong in to a major global centre of commerce, then we give it back.  Most of the industry has gone abroad, because the labour is cheap.

So I have a feeling something big is going to happen that will change, this is due to some weird dreams going back to my childhood, and other important times in my life.  mind you I was shit on by a bird yesterday, which is supposed to be good luck, if you believe in that sort of thing.  As they say things happen for a reason.  Is this my own personal self awakening?  well only time will tell.  

So very soon we will have schools breaking up for the summer, and Parliament also breaks up for the summer recess.  Well I hope Messers, Cameron, Clegg, Osbourne Etal have a nice time crusing round the mediteranian on the Rothschilds Yacht, whoops, been listening to the conspiracy theorists again, naughty me, I shall be a good boy and only listen to BBC, Sky and FOX, and get the info which is deemed safe for me to have,  I am being sarcastic on this one.

Well time to go TTFN  and talk soon

Sunday 26th June 2011

So I sit here and we move in to July this year, and yes time waits for no man.  Glastonbury finishes tonight and there has been some good acts on, It finishes with Beyonce, but I wont be watching that, because she gets on my tits.

I would love to go one day just to take in the atmosphere, there have been a few problems there this year, such as the U2 performance being marred by the demonstrations and clashes.  The problem is the fact they avoid paying tax in their homeland of Ireland, but hey we will avoid it if we got the chance.

It has been a nice hot day today, and it has been a case trying to stay cool.  Us Brits are a Nation of moaners, we moan when it is too hot, too cold.  When the weather is raining, when it is too sunny.  Some people are never happy if they are not  moaning. 

Well going back to Glastonbury, it is always good to see new up and coming groups, I like to listen to differant stuff.  I do get very bored with mainstream stuff.  I touched on that earlier in this blogg.  To be honest I own a copy of the Kings of Leon first 3 albums, but the fourth one, with the track "sex on fire" and "need somebody", I simply didnt bother with.  The reason was everyone was listening to them, even the ones who dismissed them when they first started out.  It is reflect in my choice of music and collection of albums, which consists of bands who are up and coming, or were underrated that they became cult icons. 

The fact that Sex on fire was played to death on all the wanky local commercial stations had something to do with it, you know the sort. the ones with a playlist of 50 songs, have one adverts that get on your tits to the point that you want to throw the radio out the car window, then put the car in reverse to make sure it is dead.  Half the songs are the ones released by the tossers who have been contestants on X factor.  but I digress. 

Mind you the samething has happened with TV programmes.  It must be my way of wanting to do my own thing, To be honest I dont tend to watch alot of TV, if I do it is discovery turbo, or Bear Grylls sort of programmes.  Again I lost interest in My family years ago, it is time they killed that show off in my opinion, it will get to the point where it is not funny any more. 

TTFN

Friday 24th June 2011

I have been writing these blogs for nearly a year now, and well looking back makes interesting reading.  I have been through alsorts of states of mind, and been through lots, quite a bit of which I dont publish on here

The reason I dont publish certain things is due to the fact that they are personal, and also the fact that I am still getting my head round things.  This year has overtaken me to a large degree, and yes back in jan I was making lots of plans, and we are in June now.  Some of the plans havent happened yet, due to unforeseen circumstances, so it is a case of being patient.  I am a dogged determined guy and I do get there in the end, even if it takes longer than planned. 

One thing that will not change with the blogs is my criticism of the Government,(whoever is in Power),  My opinion of them is they are all public servants.  We as citizens are effectively their boss's and to make them work then we need to stand up and give them a hard time.  Without us voting them in they would be nothing.  The Royal family are as far as I am concerned here for the civic pomp, and to encourage the foreign tourist to come over here and buy tatt spend lots of money in the hope that they glimpse a royal corgi.  Ok I live in this country, but I am not a subject of the queen, and as far as I am concerned, she eats and drinks the same as us, and her shit smells as bad as everybody elses. 

I am an individual, with my own thoughts, and yes like everyone else I get things wrong, but unlike those in power I dont try to brush it under the carpet, to be shielded by the offical secrets act.  No I get on with it, and try and figure my way out.  Ok, sometimes I might dig myself deeper but, life is one big test for us all, and challenges are constantly being thrown at us, and yes the challenges will get us down at times.

The challenges do take us to the point of disspear, but we just have to get on with it, do the best we can, and take opportunities when they are put our way.  Tell society to bollocks when it tries to keep us in our set place in the scheme of things, stick 2 fingers up to adversity.  We are all individuals and capable of so much if we set our minds to it, and set our creativity free.  So many of us hold our selves back, myself included.  But we need to sometimes do that leap of faith, the faith in ourselves, and not something we are told to worship.

Too often society follows each other like lemmings going to the edge of the cliff, or a field of sheep.  infact us humans out-sheep the sheep at times, by the manipulation by media, having them telling us what to think, what to wear.  It gets ridiculous when we cant even enjoy an evening in to be brainwashed by the last soap or programme spreading paranoia, when the phone keeps ringing.  It is from a call centre somewhere with some underpaid person at the other end, who is on a targeted commission, and this person is there trying to sell us shit we dont really want or need.  I just wish they would sod off and leave me alone, we have busy days at work and that is the last thing we need.  quite a rant tonight. 

On a differant note, as I write this I am watching Glastonbury, which I must admit I do enjoy, I like to see the up and coming bands who havent quite made it yet.   apparently it is not on next year due to the olympics, lets hope there are some decent music things happening.  I will rant about the olympics another time.

Thanks for reading and TTFN